Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Carl Poellath Newly Listed with two neat folds

with two neat folds

170 mm x 245 mm x 10

became known as Kosacken Abtielung 102

2mm including star suspension)

leather restraining strap

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Carl Poellath Newly Listed with two neat folds(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords through the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 84 for Carl Poellath, Schrobenhausen, measuring 48. 90 mm (w) x 48. 60 mm (h),