Germany, Imperial; Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mixed Lot of Awards for First and Second World War Service visually-hidden As a hobby

As a hobby

FORREST / BG

The chinstrap rests upon a protruding pressed leather visor

with a centred singular green cord and a gilded metal cipher “X”

but after a couple years in retirement

Germany, Imperial; Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mixed Lot of Awards for First and Second World War Service visually-hidden As a hobby(Auszeichungnen). A mixed lot of awards for First and Second World War service, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 23 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 7 grams