Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Kerbach & Oesterhelt, With Case GTRexclude with two 5mm wide broken

with two 5mm wide broken black stipes at the top and the bottom

Howard Hampden Burnham was born in Toronto

as well as combat missions on the Western Front between January 4 and March 1

green and blue threading in the crown's base

dated Munich

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Kerbach & Oesterhelt, With Case GTRexclude with two 5mm wide broken(Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse mit Schwertern). A Maltese cross in silvered tombac, 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 plain with a vertical pinback, reverse of pin marked with number 62 for Kerbach & sterhelt, measuring 48. 05 mm (w) x 48. 23 mm (h), and in very fine condition, accompanied by its period