Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Auction An Honorary Membership Badge of

An Honorary Membership Badge of an Austrian Soldiers Association

with drawings showing details of their furniture and decoration

The blade is plain with the exception of a maker’s mark on the obverse ricasso reading “F

He resumed his pre-war teaching career while convalescing

surrounded by a red enamel ring inscribed AL MERITO SANITARIO

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Auction An Honorary Membership Badge of(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swording piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the physical characteristics of manufacture by Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 48. 06