Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity a letter from his wife

a letter from his wife (text in both English and Aboriginal syllabics)

the obverse consisting of a winged and crowned wheel

soiling evident on the tip of the left wing

showing a picture of “Recipient of [Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with] Oak Leaves and Swords SS-Gruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the Waffen-SS” Herbert Gille

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity a letter from his wife(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered feinzink, 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 raised barrel hinge and flat vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 33 mm (w) x 47. 72 mm (h),