A First War & War Merit Cross Grouping GTRexclude 52 mm x 61

52 mm x 61

engraved "VON DEN OFFIZ

Well-stitched 195 mm long leather frog held in place via the scabbard's frog stud

Fine aluminum wire and rolled bullion wire interlaced with light brown threading

near mint condition

A First War & War Merit Cross Grouping GTRexclude 52 mm x 61Prussia: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (silver frame, with iron core, magnetic, maker marked "EW" (unknown) on the ring, 42. 8 mm); Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (iron with a bronze coloured gilt, magnetic, unmarked, 37. 3 mm); and Third Reich: War Merit Cross, 2nd Class with Swords (bronzed tombac, 48 mm). Mounted to a suspension with swing bar pinback, as worn by the veteran, original ribbons, crossed bronze swords on the HC ribbon, surface