Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, with Swords and Case, by Wilhelm Deumer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic (Reichskampf Hamburg Abzeichen)

(Reichskampf Hamburg Abzeichen)

red cabochons portray areas of chipping and discolouring

A Hamburg Hanseatic Cross

typed in black ink on a white tissue-like paper stock

1916 through April 4

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, with Swords and Case, by Wilhelm Deumer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic (Reichskampf Hamburg Abzeichen)(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Cross Patte 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 vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 62 mm (w) x 47. 98 mm (h),