Germany. A Mint Second War Period Drk (German Red Cross) Sleeve Patch GTRexclude featuring a fine hand-embroidered skull

featuring a fine hand-embroidered skull and bones insignia

struggling through thickets and swamps

3 mm x 76 mm

Silverplate is made by electroplating fine silver onto a base metal alloy

Germany. A Mint Second War Period Drk (German Red Cross) Sleeve Patch GTRexclude featuring a fine hand-embroidered skullA mint and unissued example of a DRK (German Red Cross Deutsches Rotes Kreuz) sleeve patch; constructed of red, white, and black machine embroidery in the form of a stanard DRK eagle with a mobile swastika on its chest clutching a red cross in its talons within a bed of white machine embroidery and surrounded by a black oval ring; on a white rayon backer; maker marked Rekabe W. Barmen on the obverse; measuring 98 mm (w) x 118 mm (h); in overall mint