An Early Quality Blockade Runner Badge By Schwerin Of Berlin certificate_of_authenticity until January 26

until January 26

Leopold requested the intervention of Prussia whose forces routed the rebels at Waghausel on June 20th

rough sandpaper-like surface

the glass crystal free of contact marks

An Early Quality Blockade Runner Badge By Schwerin Of Berlin certificate_of_authenticity until January 26A 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