Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Klein & Quenzer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A gilt bronze cross pattee

A gilt bronze cross pattee with stippled arms

Kramer was employed with the telephone and communications firm of Lehner & Co

On the same day he was called up by the RAD for his labour service

5 cm (w) x 232 cm (l)

Kennedy and the Antarctic 1929-34 "Discovery Investigations"

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Klein & Quenzer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A gilt bronze cross pattee(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integral hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 65 for Klein & Quenzer, Idar Oberstein, measuring 47. 48 mm (w) x 47. 48