Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Archive 2 variation

2 variation

concave cross pattée with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border

below wreath a scroll bearing the regimental designation “Ottawa and Carleton Own Rifles”

rose cut diamonds (of average quality)

with “Die Heimat Dankt Den Tapferen Soldaten” (The Homeland Thanks The Brave Soldiers) and an outline of an Iron Cross 1939 First Class on the reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Archive 2 variation(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and banjo style vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Munich, measuring 48. 55 mm (w) x 48. 39 mm (h), weighing