A War Merit Cross Second Class With Swords With Its Matching Medal Ribbon Bar Archive along with nine brass eyelets

along with nine brass eyelets embedded into the black velvet on the reverse

with a loop creating a button hole for uniform attachment at the neck end and completed with a green-finished wooden button

and then further back to defend Budapest

excellent patina

he was promoted to Gefreiter (Lance Corporal)

A War Merit Cross Second Class With Swords With Its Matching Medal Ribbon Bar Archive along with nine brass eyeletsA Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern; bronzed maltese cross; on loop for suspension (unmarked); with a period original ribbon; the obverse with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse with a circular raised border of oak leaves bearing the institution date 1939 in raised numbering; measuring 47. 40 mm x 47. 49 mm; weighing