Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Footnote: The Sip Song Chau

Footnote: The Sip Song Chau Tai (Twelve Provinces of the Dai) was an area in the north-west of French Indochina

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey snake

(1934-1937) A fine quality manufacture DRK (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz/German Red Cross) breast star for the grand cross

1944 - 29th Mar

the reverse retaining an original black paper lining with the remnants of a sales label

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Footnote: The Sip Song Chau(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 48. 18 mm (w) x 47.