A War Merit Cross First Class With Swords By Wilhelm Deumer Of Lüdenscheid Auction Falange Old Guard Decoration –

Falange Old Guard Decoration – in gilded bronze and enameled

as cited in the London Gazette 31132 on January 18

the other lost to time)

reverse illustrating the couple standing beside each other at the altar and shaking hands

A War Merit Cross First Class With Swords By Wilhelm Deumer Of Lüdenscheid Auction Falange Old Guard Decoration –A Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse mit Schwertern; maltese cross in silvered tombac; with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; with a vertical slender banjo style pinback, a barrel hinge, and a crimped round wire catch; maker marked 3 for Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid on the reverse; measuring 47. 43 mm x 47. 23 mm; weighing 18. 9 grams; with the