Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Late-War Example, by Schwerin certificate_of_authenticity with corresponding original award document

with corresponding original award document

42 mm x 55 mm

Canadian Railway Troops 4th/6th/ 12th Battalion

a four-piece hessian Maltese Cross dyed in white ink

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Late-War Example, by Schwerin certificate_of_authenticity with corresponding original award document(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