Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Service Badges, Maker-Marked Examples Auction Archive In browning brass

In browning brass

Instituted in 1918 (in silvered iron

bearing a central hand-painted 1914 Iron Cross

2 mm x 69 mm inclusive of its elephant head suspension

arched design

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Service Badges, Maker-Marked Examples Auction Archive In browning brass(Wehrmacht Abzeichen). A pair of service badges, including: 1. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, constructed of silvered zink, 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 barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck,