Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Deschler & Sohn Buy Now December 15

December 15

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mounted to a ten-pointed silver star base

Footnote: The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife is a double-edged fighting knife resembling a dagger or poignard with a foil grip developed by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes in Shanghai based on concepts which the two men initiated before World War II while serving on the Shanghai Municipal Police in China

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Deschler & Sohn Buy Now December 15(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern, mit Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, the obverse with a central wreathed mobile swastika, with crossed swords piercing the centre, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Mnchen, measuring 48. 40 mm (w) x 48. 21 mm (h), weighing 20. 6 grams,