Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Knight’s Cross Of The War Merit Cross With Swords, In Silver, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Pedley of the Rangoon Port

Pedley of the Rangoon Port Defence Volunteers

in a Walters' "Palm" Toffee Edward VIII Coronation Souvenir Tin (tin with a five-colour exterior

officially numbered "4294"

marked "15 Ct" (15 Carat Gold) on the reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Knight’s Cross Of The War Merit Cross With Swords, In Silver, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Pedley of the Rangoon Port(Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern). Instituted 18 October 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, with a pair of crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by two ribbed bars which converge on an integral loop connecting to a suspension