Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class with Sword and Case, by Carl Poellath Buy Now 50 mm x 109 mm

50 mm x 109 mm

the reverse bears a pinback with flat wire  catch

featuring a lift-off lid

and an Eastern Winter Campaign medal ribbon

constructed of a single sheet of magnetic molybdenum steel which retains the vast majority of its original slate-grey paint

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class with Sword and Case, by Carl Poellath Buy Now 50 mm x 109 mm(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit 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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 84 for Carl Poellath, Schrobenhausen, measuring 49. 04 mm (w) x 48. 74 mm