Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity February to July 1941"

February to July 1941"

The blouse is adorned with Royal Candian Army Service Corps shoulder flashes

the two outer ones to be attached to the ends of the aforementioned belt

also presenting maker’s mark “F

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity February to July 1941"(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered feinzink, consisting of a Maltese Cross, with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flat vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 33 mm (w) x 47. 72 mm (h),