Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Late-War Example, by Schwerin Auction Archive original ribbon with brooch pinback

original ribbon with brooch pinback

backed by an open-ended wreath of laurel leaves and oak leaves

marked 987 for silver fineness and K on rim of the leaf segment at 11 o’clock

Austria: WWI War Commemorative Medal 1914-1918 (bronze

with small section of paper missing

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Late-War Example, by Schwerin Auction Archive original ribbon with brooch pinback(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