A Second War German Kriegsmarine Auxiliary Cruiser Badge In Its Case Of Issue Auction Archive just west of Dallas

just west of Dallas

Three months after arriving in France

Officer’s Version - Heavily padded

each of the breast pockets with a decorative pleat

51 General Hospital at Etaples on July 20

A Second War German Kriegsmarine Auxiliary Cruiser Badge In Its Case Of Issue Auction Archive just west of DallasAn early manufacture German Kriegsabzeichen fr Hilfskreuzer; multi piece construction oval gilded tombac with a silvered tombac globe; the obverse with a Viking longship sailing over the northern hemisphere of the globe, with an oval border of oak leaves, and a national eagle at the top of the badge clutching a mobile swastika; the reverse with a vertical silvered banjo style pin, barrel hinge, and a flat wire catch; maker marked Schwerin, Berlin on