Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Late-War Example, by Schwerin Auction with the exterior overlaid by

with the exterior overlaid by a machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire lining bearing dual bands of black threaded piping

that he was married and that his trade was that of Shipper

A well preserved example of an Honour Cross First Class of the Prussian Veteran’s Association (Ehrenkreuz 1

the obverse bearing a central machine-embroidered silver-grey pip

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Late-War Example, by Schwerin Auction with the exterior overlaid by(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 Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of a Viking longship sailing over the Northern Hemisphere, the reverse with a flattened rivet securing the globe in position, with a barrel hinge and narrow banjo style pinback meeting a flat