Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Breast Eagle Auction Archive the three and nine o’clock

the three and nine o’clock arms etched ‘No 32289”

Footnote: Thomas Herbert was born in Collingwood in 1890

the obverse bearing the crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II

both measuring 45 mm (w) x 104 mm (l)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Breast Eagle Auction Archive the three and nine o’clock(Kriegsmarine Brustadler fr Offiziere). Constructed of dark blue wool, the obverse bearing a hand embroidered gold bullion wire Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse retaining a mostly intact paper liner, unmarked, measuring 110 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), in uniform removed and near extremely fine condition.