Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Exceptionally Rare Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Japanese Manufacture Buy Now Pilot’s Badge

Pilot’s Badge

This is a fine Marineschule Wesermünde Mützenband/cap tally’ constructed of golden embroidery on a black rayon backer

with dual holes for attachment

surrounded by a final ring of white enamel bearing a raised gilt order motto of “SINCERE ET CONSTANTER” (“SINCERE AND CONSTANT”) with laurel branches of identical construction

nearly very fine and better

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Exceptionally Rare Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, Japanese Manufacture Buy Now Pilot’s Badge(Kriegsabzeichen fr Hilfskreuzer). Constructed of partially gilded silver, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central depiction of the Northern Hemisphere topped by a Viking longship, the reverse with a block hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, stamped with a mark of STERLING indicating 925 silver