Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, By Schwerin Archive A grouping of five badges

A grouping of five badges

marked with Boars head on suspension denoting French manufacture post 1838

A set Heer Signals Unterfeldwebel tropical shoulder straps

Royal Flying Corps insignia with the inscription "PER ARDUA AD ASTRA" above the interlocking initials "IM"

planning to fly mail from the White Star ocean liner RMS Homeric in a de Havilland DH

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, By Schwerin Archive A grouping of five badges(Abzeichen fr Blockadebrecher). Constructed of silvered and patinated tombak, the obverse consisting of a circular chain link wreath, surrounding a central blockade runner cutting through waves, with its bow topped by a German national eagle in mid flight clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked OTTO PLACZEK, BERLIN and maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 48. 73