Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case certificate_of_authenticity COLONEL EDWARD TANNER

COLONEL EDWARD TANNER

a recipient of the War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords

of such Englishmen as Sit Theophilus Shepstone

Šabac 1890" on obverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case certificate_of_authenticity COLONEL EDWARD TANNER(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