Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle Newly Listed (Deutsche Arbeitsfront Stoßtrupp Gürtelschnalle)

(Deutsche Arbeitsfront Stoßtrupp Gürtelschnalle)

Griffiths saw action at Columba

unusual shape

steel support plate

received a nasty little gash in the jaw

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle Newly Listed (Deutsche Arbeitsfront Stoßtrupp Gürtelschnalle)(Kriegsmarine Brustadler fr Offizier). Constructed of gilded aluminum, the obverse consisting of a finely detailed Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integral barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the wreathed, marked M indicating Kriegsmarine issue, measuring 94 mm (w) x 38 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.