Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed official or private

official or private

Knighted (1955)

measuring 90 mm (w) x 35 mm (h)

fitted with scroll suspension

Constructed of a dark grey wool backer bearing a machine-embroidered silver wire oak leaf wreath flanked by wings

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed official or private(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, around a central depiction of a Viking longship sailing over the northern hemisphere, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of