Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Medal, with Issue Package, by Arno Wallpach Republic of light wear and crazing present

light wear and crazing present on the leather sweatband

The crown retains a fully-legible maker’ mark of “HCH

one of which is stamped with an "A")

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Medal, with Issue Package, by Arno Wallpach Republic of light wear and crazing present(Kriegsverdienstmedaille). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 35 mm in diameter, weighing 13. 4 grams, accompanied by its original package of issue, constructed of brown paper stock, the exterior