Württemberg, Kingdom. A Wilhelm Cross With Swords consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac marked with an "A" (Vienna)

marked with an "A" (Vienna)

consisting of eleven 36

set within a period wooden frame with a textured gilt finish and retaining a fully-intact glass face

1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilians

A third reich period plaque

Württemberg, Kingdom. A Wilhelm Cross With Swords consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac marked with an "A" (Vienna)(Wilhelmskreuz mit Schwerter fr Kriegsverdienst). Instituted 13 September 1915 by King Wilhelm II. (1915 1918). Constructed of bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central raised monogram of King Wilhelm II, situated within a circular oak leaf wreath, the six oclock arm bearing an institution date of 1915, the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised crown, the reverse