Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Archive Police Long Service Cross 1st

Police Long Service Cross 1st Class (for 25 Years of service)

1896 aboard RIMS Warren Hastings

7 mm (h) inclusive of its laterally-piercedball suspension

He was posted to the Nürnberg 8th SS N

the obverse bearing Berlin studio marks

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Archive Police Long Service Cross 1st(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 crimped barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Munich, accompanied by its period original