Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Late-War Example, by Schwerin Auction Two letters to Fassong’s wife

Two letters to Fassong’s wife

(Deutsches Afrikakorps Uniform Krawatte)

awarded on September 13th

surmounted by a bi-plane (Air Corps)

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

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Late-War Example, by Schwerin Auction Two letters to Fassong’s wife(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