Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, By Förster & Barth Auction Archive Fabricated from a maroon wool

Fabricated from a maroon wool with fold down flaps in navy blue wool on either side

14 mm (w) x 18

constructed of gilded cupal

Vivid II on December 17th and named to the rank of Engineer Room Artificer 4th Class on January 3

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, By Förster & Barth Auction Archive Fabricated from a maroon wool(Kriegsabzeichen fr Hilfskreuzer). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, with a Viking longship sailing over a depiction of the North Atlantic and Northern Europe, the reverse with a central rivet securing the obverse globe in place, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat