Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Archive Book of Common Prayer (inscribed

Book of Common Prayer (inscribed in handwritten blue ink "Charles Gordon Clegg / from mother / Collect for 9th Sunday after Trinity / March 6th 1932" on the front leaf

In generally fine condition

s Cross First Class (1870-1918)

Plot: Section B

on the eastern tip of New Guinea

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Archive Book of Common Prayer (inscribed(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms, with a central wreathed mobile swastika and crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Mnchen, measuring 48. 25 mm (w) x 48. 09 mm (h), weighing 20.