Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive and Chief Flight Surgeon (silvered

and Chief Flight Surgeon (silvered metal

Born into the aristocracy to a father who was also a general

In nickel alloy

the angles of the cross set with a single paste stones and the point of the limb set with three paste stones

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive and Chief Flight Surgeon (silvered(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of feinzink, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms, with a central wreathed mobile swastika, with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a thick wire catch, marked 4 on the pinback (Steinhauer & Lck), measuring 48. 51 mm (w) x 48. 48 mm (h), weighing 17. 6 g, very fine.