Germany, Wehrmacht. An Unissued War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Descheler & Son Buy Now (Suomen Punaisen Ristin ansiomitali)

(Suomen Punaisen Ristin ansiomitali)

the highest degree of the order

Plated blade is shiny and bright

Footnote: William Robert Cornell was a resident of Kitchener

and an exterior green painted wreath

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Unissued War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Descheler & Son Buy Now (Suomen Punaisen Ristin ansiomitali)(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Munich, measuring 48. 45 mm (w) x 48. 35 mm (h), weighing 23.