Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Service Badges, Maker-Marked Examples Auction Archive 5 General Hospital on March

5 General Hospital on March 9

Flanking the cap band are pebbled magnetic metal buttons which secure in place a chinstrap constructed of multiple rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire

Instituted in 1918 (in silvered iron

2 mm x 69 mm inclusive of its elephant head suspension

In browning brass

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Service Badges, Maker-Marked Examples Auction Archive 5 General Hospital on March(Wehrmacht Abzeichen). A pair of service badges, including: 1. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, constructed of silvered zink, 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 barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck,