Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, By Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with an image and caption

with an image and caption cut from a newspaper and pasted to a paper stock backer

the obverse bearing a raised rightward-facing profile of Dr

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, By Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with an image and caption(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 40 mm (w) x 48. 20 mm (h), weighing 15. 8 grams, in near extremely fine condition.