entitled "Orders
Essex during July and August
but typical badge by maker BH Mayer
and Grand Cross Breast Star (four-piece construction
A Bronze Grade German Mother's Cross - In bronze and enamels
Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, With Swords Case, By Wilhelm Deumer certificate_of_authenticity entitled "Orders(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a slightly vaulted Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 11 for Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 97 mm (w) x 49. 05 mm (h), weighing 14. 6 grams, demonstrating minor loss of finish to high contact points,