a blue enamelled cross with clusters of smooth rays in each quadrant
in uniform and wearing an indeterminate Grand Cross and the 1870 Iron Cross II Class with 25th Jubilee Clasp
the obverse bearing a raised stag’s skull with a radiant mobile swastika between its antlers
a brown leather sweatband fully surrounds the lower circumference and measures 38 mm in width and is secured to the cap with a row of machine stitching
from his posting at #1 Air Navigation School
Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne visually-hidden a blue enamelled cross with(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 barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 98 mm (w) x 47.