An Early Quality Blockade Runner Badge By Schwerin Of Berlin Newly Listed This was highest Prussian bravery

This was highest Prussian bravery award for enlisted soldiers and only about 1350 Crosses awarded during 1914-18 period

(GEMA1188)

lightly soiled from wear

surrounded by the inscription "ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DEN FELDZUG IN FRANKREICH" (In Memory of the Campaign in France)

71mm(height)

An Early Quality Blockade Runner Badge By Schwerin Of Berlin Newly Listed This was highest Prussian braveryA textbook example of a fine early quality Blockade Runner badge (Blockadebrecherabzeichen); in circular patinated and silvered tombac; the obverse with a large ship breaking through waves with a large eagle clutching a swastika on its stern, surrounded by a border of silvered chains being broken by the ship near the bottom; the reverse plain, with a vertical banjo style pinback with a barrel hinge and a flat wire catch; maker marked Schwerin, berlin