Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Melrose - Anzic landings DSM

Melrose - Anzic landings DSM - Distinguished Service Medal

(Trier Leistungsmedaille)

8 mm respectively

All suspended from an addition War Commemorative Medal of 1870/71 for Combatants ribbon which has been stitched with five hooks for suspension

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Melrose - Anzic landings DSM(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, 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 flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 47. 94 mm (w) x 47. 65 mm (h), weighing 22. 9 grams, accompanied by its original presentation