1939 War Merit Cross 1st Class by Carl Poellath (#84)
Price: $300
BUY / RESERVE THIS ITEMDescription: High quality die struck nickel/silver service award in the form of a Maltese style cross having crossed swords with a circular centerpiece with an embossed, canted, swastika encircled by an oak-leaf wreath to the obverse. The background field of the obverse centerpiece is smooth while the arms of the cross have a pebbled background field with raised, smooth, outer edges. The plain reverse has a solid, soldered, hinge, a broad, vertical tapered pin and a heavy soldered catch all intact. The pin is well marked with the impressed manufacturer’s numerical code, “84”, indicating manufacture by Carl Poellath. A superb early war example of this award that is typically found in kriegsmetal (zinc).
