Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer Söhne GTRexclude the waistline at the front

the waistline at the front with a strap on the left side

Higher Officer's School of Mechanized Troops "WSO WZ" Badge (two-piece construction

the obverse shows the crowned royal cypher of Wilhelm I over the inscription Dem siegreichen Heere (To the victorious army)

scattered white oxidation evident on both sides

and weighing at 22

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer Söhne GTRexclude the waistline at the front(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, 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 flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 48. 08 mm (w) x 47.