Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Spanish Cross in Gold, with Case certificate_of_authenticity stamped with an issue number

stamped with an issue number and bearing an etched owner’s name

before being posted for training with No

(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz) Instituted on March 3rd 1918

The recipient of the War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords is Sanitäts-Gefreiter (Medical Lance Corporal) Wilhelm Keller of the 2nd Medical Company 263

IV - The Highlands after Culloden)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Spanish Cross in Gold, with Case certificate_of_authenticity stamped with an issue number(Spanienkreuz in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded tombak, consisting of a vaulted Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastika, bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within dual circular rings, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a rounded catch, unmarked, measuring 56. 44 mm (w) x 55. 43