Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Deschler & Sohn Buy Now Footnote: The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife

Footnote: The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife is a double-edged fighting knife resembling a dagger or poignard with a foil grip developed by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes in Shanghai based on concepts which the two men initiated before World War II while serving on the Shanghai Municipal Police in China

with full length ribbons

As the commanding officer

December 15

89 mm (w) x 84

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Deschler & Sohn Buy Now Footnote: The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern, mit Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, the obverse with a central wreathed mobile swastika, with crossed swords piercing the centre, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Mnchen, measuring 48. 40 mm (w) x 48. 21 mm (h), weighing 20. 6 grams,