War Merit Crosses &
Medals
KVK 1St CLASS (WAR MERIT CROSS) WITH SWORDS
Instituted 1939
Known Makers
No 1,No 3, No 14 No 52,No L/11 No L/21 No 98 No L/56
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(K6) A nice Early War Merit Cross 1st Class With Swords. The cross is the early nickel silvered type and has a few tarnish spots onto the cross as can be seen from the scan. The cross is an early issue award of nice quality metal and apart from the tarnish marks, the cross would have been classed as very good condition. Priced for these GBP £125.00 (UK Pounds)
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(L273) A War Merit Cross 1st Class With Swords being the Early Silver Plated example. The cross is unmarked and is of lovely quality and condition. The cross still retains most of its silver plated finish although there is some wear to the centre as is to be expected of a used and worn example. The cross was part of a group of items picked up at the end of the war by a British serviceman and has only just recently come on to the market. GBP £150.00 (UK Pounds)
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(L317) A War Merit Cross 1st Class With Swords being a mid to late war example, silver plated zinc. This has tarnished over the years giving a streaked grey finish in places although the burnishing from the silver finish is still intact in places, giving it a nice contrast. The award is maker marked No. 3 to the reverse which is stamped into a box. All in all, in nice order. The badge was removed from a salesmans sample board for this firm and stuck into a frame. GBP £125.00 (UK Pounds)
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KVK 1St CLASS (WAR MERIT CROSS) WITHOUT SWORDS
Instituted 1939
Known Makers
No 1,No 3, No 14 No 52,No L/11 No L/21 No 98 No L/56
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(L318) A War Merit Cross 1st Class Without Swords being a mid to late war example, silver plated zinc. This has tarnished over the years giving a streaked grey finish in places although the burnishing from the silver finish is still intact in places, giving it a nice contrast. The award is maker marked No. 3 which is stamped into the reverse. All in all, in nice order. The badge was removed from a salesmans sample board for this firm and stuck into a frame. . GBP £125.00 (UK Pounds)
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KVK 2nd CLASS (WAR MERIT CROSS) WITH SWORDS
Instituted 1939
Known Makers
No 1,No 3, No 14, No 65, No 77
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(J1668) A nice early Bronze War Merit Cross With Swords. The cross is the early tombak type and appears to have been dropped at some time as two of the points to one of the V's are bent slightly out, this is hardly noticeable but worth pointing out. Complete with it's original ribbon, it is becoming scarce to find these earlier quality metal awards. GBP £35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K115) An Early War Merit Cross With Swords. The cross is the earlier type manufactured from nice quality metal and has a separately applied eyering to the top. The award has a nice original caramel bronze colour and is complete with an original piece of ribbon that is clean but has been cut and shortened at some time. Recently found in a house clearance in Germany. GBP £35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K116) A Late War example of a Merit Cross With Swords. The cross is in near mint condition and retains it's original factory lacquered finish, which has pulled in the olive bronze wash, leaving a grey green hew. The award other than this, is as stated near mint, and very nice to find complete with original factory finish. Complete with it's original ribbon, which is nice and clean. The award, I would say has never been issued. Recently found in a house clearance in Germany. GBP £25.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K295) A nice Early War Merit Cross 1939 With Swords 2nd Class being made of early quality bronze metal. The award is in very nice overall condition with a nice caramel bronze colour. Given for one act of bravery, not in the face of the enemy. The early quality awards are hard to find now. GBP £35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K385) A nice Early Issue War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords, being a nice olive bronze colour. The award is the early type with the separately applied eyering. Very nice to find early issues of quality metal and workmanship. Given for one act of bravery not in the face of the enemy, ie tank repair and recovery, these awards were equal to the non-combatant iron cross. GBP £ 35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K587) A Nice War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords. Given for one act of bravery above and beyond the call of duty, this was the award given to medics, tank recovery crew men etc. who managed to qualify for an award that would have in WWI, merited the non combatant class of the iron cross. The award is a nice Early example that has toned dark over the years. Still though in good overall condition. The item is of early quality manufacture with a separately applied eyering. Becoming hard to find early examples. The cross was recently acquired from a German House Agent from the centre of Germany. GBP £35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K585) A Nice War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords. Given for one act of bravery above and beyond the call of duty, this was the award given to medics, tank recovery crew men etc. who managed to qualify for an award that would have in WWI, merited the non combatant class of the iron cross. The award is a nice Early example that has toned dark over the years. Still though in good overall condition. The item is of early quality manufacture with a separately applied eyering. Becoming hard to find early examples. The cross was recently acquired from a German House Agent from the centre of Germany. GBP £35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K586) A Nice War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords. Given for one act of bravery above and beyond the call of duty, this was the award given to medics, tank recovery crew men etc. who managed to qualify for an award that would have in WWI, merited the non combatant class of the iron cross. The award is a nice Early example that has toned dark over the years. Still though in good overall condition. The item is of early quality manufacture with a separately applied eyering. Becoming hard to find early examples. The cross was recently acquired from a German House Agent from the centre of Germany. GBP £35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K740) A Nice used and worn example of a two toned War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords. The cross has the swords, the edge, the swastika and the wreath in a light bronze with the pebbled finish being a darker bronze, giving the award an over all pleasing two toned appearance. A very nice variation. The award was obviously hand finished and as such, is probably a nice earlier award. This was part of a group of items recently purchased from a German houseclearing agent in the Frankfurt area. GBP £40.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K1100) An Early Issue Bronze based War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords ring stamped 127, which is for the maker Moritz Hausch, a manufacturer not often encountered. The cross is of nice quality with a nice darker overall bronze two toned finish. GBP £35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K1105) A Beautiful example of an Early issue War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords.
The cross is a nice darker caramel colour and is of very nice quality and construction. It is quite hard to get a nice example in this colour with most having tarnish spots. GBP £30.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K1106) A Nice example of the later issue War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords. The award retains most of it's original bronze plated finish and has the eyering cast into the main construction of the badge. The award was given like the non combatant iron cross for WWI to medics, recovery crews etc. Nice to find in such good condition. GBP £30.00 (uk pounds)
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(K1103) A Nice 2nd Issue Bronze plated War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords. The cross is ringstamped No. 100 for the well known maker Rudolf Wachtler und Lange, mostly encountered on Russian Front Medals and Eastern Peoples awards. This cross is nice in that it retains most of it's bronze plated finish and is of slim lightweight construction. GBP £27.50 (UK Pounds)
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(K1379) A Nice Early War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords. The cross is the caramel colour and has a separetely applied eyering. Given for one act of bravery, not in the face of the enemy. This was for the likes of medics, mechanics, and such non combatant troops. The cross was recently acquired from a German house clearing agent with a bunch of other items, which will be listed gradually. GBP £35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K1438) A Bronze War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords being of mid war construction with a cast in eyering. The cross retains most of it's original bronze plated finish and is in overall very good condition. Given for one act of bravery, not in the face of the enemy, the award replaced a non combatant iron cross. GBP £30.00 (UK Pounds)
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KVK 2nd CLASS (WAR MERIT CROSS) WITHOUT SWORDS
Instituted 1939
Known Makers
No 1,No 3, No 14 , No 50 , L/11
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(K60) A Nice example of an Early issue War Merit Cross 2nd Class Without Swords, being the type with the separately applied eyering. The cross is an unmarked example and is in very good condition. GBP £35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K75) A Nice War Merit Cross 2nd Class Without Swords being the early bronze issue. The award has a separately applied eyering and is made of nice quality metal. These early awards are becoming hard to find. In very good condition. GBP £35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K94) A War Merit Cross 2nd Class Without Swords. The cross is a nice early quality bronze issue with a separately applied eyering. The cross has toned a dark caramel bronze colour
and is in very good condition. Complete with a length of original ribbon, this is clean and tidy and approximately 4" long. There is no ribbon ring mark I can see. Becoming hard to find early issues. GBP £35.00 (UK Pounds)
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(K1448) A Mid War example of a War Merit Cross 2nd Class Without Swords, being in very nice overall condition. The cross still retains it's factory lacquered finish and is maker marked 16 on the eyering. Given for one act of bravery not in the face of the enemy, this cross was the equivalent of the non combatant iron cross in WWII. GBP £25.00 (UK Pounds)
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(L319) A War Merit Cross 2nd Class Without Swords being a later cast type with a bronze wash applied. This bronze wash is virtually 100% intact. The award was removed from a Deumer sample board where the ribbon was then stuck onto a display board and now has glue marks to the reverse. The ribbon is shorter than normal but this is how they mounted it on the display board. GBP £30.00 (UK Pounds)
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(L281) A War Merit Cross 2nd Class Without Swords, the Earlier bronze tombak type in nice quality metal. The award has a nice piece of original ribbon attached and was picked up at the end of the war by a soldier who traded these items for chocolates, sweets etc. GBP £30.00 (UK Pounds)
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KVM (WAR MERIT MEDAL)
Instituted 1939
Known Makers
No 1,No 3, No 14 , No 50
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(L6) An Early example of a bronzed manufactured War Merit Medal. The medal has toned over the years, and has a couple of darkened spots also. This medal is part of a group that were found several years ago and has been in a collection up until now. The majority of the awards found had the same type of staining to them ,as they had been badly stored. GBP £12.50 (UK Pounds)
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(L8) An Early example of a bronzed manufactured War Merit Medal. The medal has toned over the years, and has a couple of darkened spots also. This medal is part of a group that were found several years ago and has been in a collection up until now. The majority of the awards found had the same type of staining to them ,as they had been badly stored. GBP £12.50 (UK Pounds)
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(L320) A Nice Early Bronze War Merit Medal. The bronze has toned over the years and shows a couple of verdigre marks to it.The award was removed from a Deumer sample board where the ribbon was then stuck onto a display board and now has glue marks to the reverse. The ribbon is shorter than normal but this is how they mounted it on the display board. GBP £17.50 (UK Pounds)
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