Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by C.E. Juncker Archive The reverse of the pendant

The reverse of the pendant is also marked “Thomas Sabo”

naming his personal contact as his friend

very minor contact marks with only one slight chip out of white enamel on tip of bottom arm

7 mm (h) x 9 mm (W)

after a few days on to the South Pacific

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by C.E. Juncker Archive The reverse of the pendant(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tomback, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a C shaped flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by C. E. Juncker, Berlin, measuring 49. 10 mm (w) x 48.