Close Combat Clasp-Silver Grade - Fll certificate_of_authenticity Mertsch won the German Cross

Mertsch won the German Cross in Gold in September 1943 and would go on to be the artillery commander of  XIII SS-Armeekorps and finished the war commanding a Kampfgruppe in Czechoslovakia

suspension has Gold hallmark as well

he is known as William II

Berlin  - Gilded tombac

in very good

Close Combat Clasp-Silver Grade - Fll certificate_of_authenticity Mertsch won the German CrossClose Combat Clasp Silver Grade FLL In zinc, marked "F. E. C. W. E. PEEKHAUS BERLIN" and maker marked F L L (for Friedrich Linden, Ldenscheid), slightly vaulted, good quality clasp with good details and plating, slightly worn, magnetic plate replaced (not original), hinge shows signs of repair, otherwise in good condition.