Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle Archive stick pin style award

stick pin style award

bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey inscription of “AFRIKA” flanked by palm trees

Iron Cross First Class 1939 – L/11 - Iron core

Mossman of Darlington

and thick wire catch

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle Archive stick pin style award(Kriegsmarine Brustadler fr Offizier). Constructed of gilded aluminum, the obverse consisting of a finely detailed Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integral barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the wreathed, marked M indicating Kriegsmarine issue, measuring 94 mm (w) x 38 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.