Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Carl Poellath certificate_of_authenticity (Dienstabzeichen für 15 Jahre)

(Dienstabzeichen für 15 Jahre)

reverse with eagles engraved on all four arms

1944 and signed by an Oberfeldarzt and the hospital’s Chief Medical Officer

The first page reads: “In memory of my time in the Reich Labour Service

which transitions into a richly-detailed pommel circumscribed by oak leaves

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Carl Poellath certificate_of_authenticity (Dienstabzeichen für 15 Jahre)(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and crossed swords piercing the centre, with a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 84 for Carl Poellath, Schrobenhausen, measuring 48. 90 mm (w) x 48. 55 mm (h), weighing 22. 2