Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Archive 1915 at No

1915 at No

very fine quality and all period strikings

11 in diameter

each constructed of card stock-reinforced light green wool and bearing four bands of silver aluminum wire piping

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, by Schwerin Archive 1915 at No(Abzeichen fr Blockadebrecher). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular chain link wreath, surrounding a central blockade runner cutting through waves, with its bow overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, with its head extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked OTTO PLACZEK, BERLIN and maker marked