Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by C.E. Juncker Archive 1918) on the right edge

1918) on the right edge

thus exposing approximately 20 mm of the interior twisted cotton strings

the superimposed medallion with the same imagery to match the badge with eight singular extending rays meeting each knee of the star

maker marked on reverse “Briquet Setr

graduating on November 26

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by C.E. Juncker Archive 1918) on the right edge(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tomback, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a C shaped flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by C. E. Juncker, Berlin, measuring 49. 10 mm (w) x 48.