Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity built on a large hunting

built on a large hunting estate northeast of Berlin in the Schorfheide forest between the lakes Grossdöllner See and Wuckersee in the north of Brandenburg

a letter from his wife (text in both English and Aboriginal syllabics)

After the fall of the Berlin Wall

on a black enameled disk bearing silver oak leaves and a date of “1931”

soiling evident on the tip of the left wing

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity built on a large hunting(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered feinzink, 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 raised barrel hinge and flat vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 33 mm (w) x 47. 72 mm (h),