Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords Hold A 1938 Gau South Westfalen

A 1938 Gau South Westfalen Ten Year Anniversary Meeting at Bochum Tinnie - Aluminum

Naming on the Breast Badge is engraved on the reverse

and is wrapped with twisted aluminum wire

The award was patterned after Napoleon's Legion of Honour of 1812 and the French Colonial Order of the dragon of Annam

with its vertical needle style pinback

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords Hold A 1938 Gau South Westfalen(Kriegsverdienstkreuze I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords through the centre, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integral barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a rounded integral catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 13 mm (w) x 48. 63 mm (h), weighing 16. 7 grams, with loss of finish throughout, in overall very fine condition.