Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class, By Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude the obverse bearing dual bands

the obverse bearing dual bands of silver aluminum wire piping interspersed with black threading

Commander's Neck Badge

at Quebec City

maker marked “Fritz Kohm

suspended from a 32 mm (w) x 15 mm (h) enamelled ribbon bar with pinback)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class, By Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude the obverse bearing dual bands(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms, with a central mobile swastika inside of an oak leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, marked with code 4 for maker Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring 49. 57 mm (w) x 49. 22 mm (h), weighing 15. 2 grams, a later war example in very fine condition.