Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed together with union president Constantin

together with union president Constantin Doncea

Returned to duty

similarly bearing raised sickle and hammer designs

attributed of course to their proposed superiority

with the number having faded to time

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed together with union president Constantin(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 banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 45 mm (w) x 48. 15 mm (h), weighing 13. 8 grams, accompanied by its period original