These are in great condition
spring-loaded two-piece scalloped upright cassette for ten cigarettes
The top buttonhole is decorated with a ribbon for a War Merit Cross 1939 Second Class
retaining a rounded pommel nut screwing in to maintain the dagger’s structural integrity
and realizing he had a few minutes while his company was awaiting the supporting artillery fire
Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross, Exhibition Example, c.1960 GTRexclude These are in great condition(Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes Museumsstck). Constructed of silvered bronze, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by two ribbed bars culminating in an eyelet and suspension ring retaining an original length of neck ribbon, unmarked, measuring 52.