A Second War German Kriegsmarine Blockade Runner Badge Miniature Stick Pin Auction Archive with functional pinback

with functional pinback

and joined the DAF (German Labour Front) in January 1937

Numbering among these were Order of Glory III Class awards authorized for Soviet operations in support of the Korean War from 1950-1953

Footnote: Militär-Max-Joseph-Orden issue number 42 is confirmed and attributed to Otto von Stetten

A Second War German Kriegsmarine Blockade Runner Badge Miniature Stick Pin Auction Archive with functional pinbackA fine example of a Blockade Runner (Blockadebrecherabzeichen) badge miniature stick pin; in circular silvered and patinated tombac; the obverse with a large ship breaking through waves with a large eagle clutching a swastika on its stern, surrounded by a border of silvered chains being broken by the ship near the bottom; the reverse plain, with a 47 mm long knurled needle pin; measuring 25 mm in diameter; near mint condition. (C: 185)