Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, with Case, by Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude four are date marked "E"

four are date marked "E" (1979)

worn on original blue ribbon with rosette (tape on reverse)

his jack knife saved him from injury

both completing at each end in functional gilded alloy spring clips and adjusted with functional gilded zink buckles bearing dual raised lion heads

An excellent example of a NSKK (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps Feldmütze

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, with Case, by Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude four are date marked "E"(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 32 mm (w) x 48. 12 mm (h), weighing 16. 0 grams, accompanied by a period