Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Newly Listed (Souveräner Ritter und Hospitalorden vom

(Souveräner Ritter und Hospitalorden vom heiligen Johannes von Jerusalem von Rhodos und von Malta

on original ribbon with brooch pinback on reverse

gastroenteritis from June 27 1944 until 29 August 1944

for the period June 4

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Newly Listed (Souveräner Ritter und Hospitalorden vom(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