Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, by Deschler & Sohn United Republic of printed on Mimosa paper

printed on Mimosa paper

engraved on the reverse of the CAFD with the initial "V" having been added in by hand after the fact

silvering worn off completely

The document is dated to November 4

Instituted in 1951

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, by Deschler & Sohn United Republic of printed on Mimosa paper(Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern). Instituted 19 October 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by two ribbed bars which culminate in the middle with an integral loop connecting to a