Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the interior features a silk

the interior features a silk lid marked Joseph Resch Fii Bucarest

(1934-1937) A fine quality manufacture DRK (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz/German Red Cross) breast star for the grand cross

issued on 13 November 1946 by the Office of the Military Government of the United States at Nuremberg

PRAHA 11”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the interior features a silk(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 48. 18 mm (w) x 47.