Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class Gold Grade With Case, By Wächtler & Lange Auction Archive the reverse inscribed “Bene Merentibus”

the reverse inscribed “Bene Merentibus”

Carmania on February 1

17 mm x 36

the reverse inscribed “Den tapferen Verteidigern des Vaterlandes MDCCXCVII” (Latin - To the brave defenders of the fatherland 1797)

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class Gold Grade With Case, By Wächtler & Lange Auction Archive the reverse inscribed “Bene Merentibus”(Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker, I. Klasse in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central rosette set within a circular laurel leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 100 for Wchtler & Lange, Mittweida, measuring 49. 49 mm (w) x 49. 26 mm (h),