Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Deschler & Sohn Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Stamped onto the left flap

Stamped onto the left flap is a Reichsbetriebsnummer of “0/0794/0021” indicating manufacture by Spiesshofer & Braun

an Order of 9 September 1944

inside lid lined in white satin

measuring 83 mm (w) x 126 mm (h)

one arm of the cross and center re-enameled

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Deschler & Sohn Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Stamped onto the left flap(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 crimped barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Munich, measuring 48. 61 mm (w) x 48. 49