Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Deschler & Sohn GTRexclude An award document to Stabsbootsmann

An award document to Stabsbootsmann Franz Lapp for an Iron Cross

surrounded by the words LIMES 1938 and ABSCHNITT OFFENBURG (Section Offenburg)

Prussian Order of Hohenzollern

The reverse is taped in three places

Presenting some slight creasing

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Deschler & Sohn GTRexclude An award document to Stabsbootsmann(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 and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Munich, measuring 48. 58 mm (w) x 48. 02 mm (h),