Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, with Case, by Friedrich Orth Newly Listed featuring a crown suspension

featuring a crown suspension

with Hourie later being transferred to the 43rd Infantry Battalion "Cameron Highlanders of Canada"

Ellis & co

measuring 46 mm (w) x 13 mm each

A textbook nonmagnetic private purchase Naval Iron Cross 1939 First Class by Wächtler & Lange

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, with Case, by Friedrich Orth Newly Listed featuring a crown suspension(Kriegsabzeichen fr Hilfskreuzer). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, 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, surrounding a central Viking longship sailing over the Northern Hemisphere, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Friedrich Orth, Vienna, measuring 44.