Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Kerbach & Oesterhelt Buy Now 4TH LINE BATT

4TH LINE BATT

small section of original ribbon

The oval badge bears the initials “DRL” (“Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen”) intertwined with

for the French theatre on December 20

33 mm (w) x 22

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Kerbach & Oesterhelt Buy Now 4TH LINE BATT(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 pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Kerbach & Oesterhelt, Dresden, measuring 48. 42 mm (w)