Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by Wilhelm Deumer visually-hidden It could be awarded to

It could be awarded to Estonian citizens as well as to foreigners

Before seeing action in Korea

Accompanied by his Active Service Canadian Pay Book (brown cloth moisture-resistant cover

Stirndruckfrei Deutsches Reichspatent” and a typed owner’s name of “Mähr

Schwarz participated in the failed Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by Wilhelm Deumer visually-hidden It could be awarded to(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepece, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 27 mm (w) x 48. 27 mm (h),