Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Newly Listed Suspended together with locking pinback

Suspended together with locking pinback

an auxiliary police force responsible for all tasks resulting from air raids

Werner firms attempt to “personalize” this otherwise textbook Wagner style cross

Accompanied by two bakelite dog tags

1917 to November 4

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Newly Listed Suspended together with locking pinback(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 11 for Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 20 mm (w) x 47. 88 mm (h), weighing 20. 6 grams,