Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Kerbach & Oesterhelt, With Case GTRexclude (Schiffchenadler)

(Schiffchenadler)

dated Munich

Instituted 1878

with two 5mm wide broken black stipes at the top and the bottom

Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Ottawa

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Kerbach & Oesterhelt, With Case GTRexclude (Schiffchenadler)(Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse mit Schwertern). A Maltese cross in silvered tombac, the obverse with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center, the reverse plain with a vertical pinback, reverse of pin marked with number 62 for Kerbach & sterhelt, measuring 48. 05 mm (w) x 48. 23 mm (h), and in very fine condition, accompanied by its period