The medal mounted to a cardboard panel with an award document glued in place (the document illustrating four gold stars
chipping evident in the green enamels on the central emanating ray at 9 o'clock
a Nazi Party organization established primarily for the education of both automobile and motorcycle drivers
as he was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General in February 1935 and was placed on the Retired List as a full Colonel in 1937
with a slotted off-white velvet medal bed
Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Unusual Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Archive The medal mounted to a(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Maltese Cross with swords piercing the centre, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 93 mm (w) x 47. 84 mm (h), weighing 18. 1 grams,