Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold with Case, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden the six o’clock arm with

the six o’clock arm with a maker’s mark of “W” for the firm of Wagner & Sohn

One of the adjustment knobs is maker marked “ZF4/S CARL ZEISS JENA DDR”

also includes an early 20th century museum accession mark

Constructed of gilt tombac with red

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold with Case, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden the six o’clock arm with(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker, I. Klasse in Gold mit Etui). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed starburst, bearing a central raised rosette, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, in turn surrounded by a pebbled border, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an oval plate, the