Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Order Of The German Eagle Type I, Silver Medal Of Merit With Swords, By Deschler & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity two adjoining tablets with "LEX"

two adjoining tablets with "LEX" inscribed above four blocks

the reverse shows maker mark “PAULMANN & CRONE LÜDENSCHEID

number 170299 on October 6

he worked under Construction Direction: “South 2” from June 22nd 1941 on Tiefbau

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Order Of The German Eagle Type I, Silver Medal Of Merit With Swords, By Deschler & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity two adjoining tablets with "LEX"(Orden vom Deutschen Adler, Silberne Verdienstmedaille mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1939 1943 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross, with its quadrants joined by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastika, the twelve oclock position bearing crossed swords, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of