Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Archive bevelled edged wooden plaque

bevelled edged wooden plaque

2nd Motor Squadron Massachusetts State Guard (two-piece construction

each constructed of card stock-reinforced light green wool and bearing four bands of silver aluminum wire piping

slightly tattered ribbons

very fine quality and all period strikings

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Archive bevelled edged wooden plaque(Abzeichen fr Blockadebrecher). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular chain link wreath, surrounding a central blockade runner cutting through waves, with its bow overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, with its head extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked OTTO PLACZEK, BERLIN and maker marked