Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive measuring 40 mm (w) x

measuring 40 mm (w) x 46 mm (h) each

"X" scratched on the reverse

measuring 38 mm x 57 mm

58 mm x 42

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive measuring 40 mm (w) x(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered feinzink, 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 flat vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 33 mm (w) x 47. 72 mm (h),