Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive A pair of medals with

A pair of medals with documentation

A heavy padded blue-gray Luftwaffe wool

The War Merit Cross 2nd Class certificate is named to Polizeiobersekretär (police senior secretary) Otto Marx in Kassel

two days before he was discharged from hospital on October 28th

the lid bearing the Royal crown and cypher

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive A pair of medals with(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 48. 18 mm (w) x 47.