Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Auction Archive 1936-1939” (“IN THE FIGHT AGAINST

1936-1939” (“IN THE FIGHT AGAINST BOLSHEVISM IN SPAIN

Maryland National Guard Guard State Service Cross (bronze

within blue enameled ring

A matching set of Flieger-SA Sturmbannführer collar tabs

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Auction Archive 1936-1939” (“IN THE FIGHT AGAINST(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). 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 raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular plate, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Julius Bauer & Shne,