Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Newly Listed 8 mm (h) ribbon bar

8 mm (h) ribbon bar with pinback

and backed by buckram base

marked Ges Gesch

gastroenteritis from June 27 1944 until 29 August 1944

engraved "BRUXELLES" on the obverse of the blade

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Newly Listed 8 mm (h) ribbon bar(Abzeichen fr Blockadebrecher). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a circular chain link wrath, surrounding a central depiction of a blockade runner cutting through waves and breaking the chain, with its bow overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika in mid flight and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked