Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed by Pope Gregory XVI

by Pope Gregory XVI

Elmitt died on February 25

thanking him for loaning him the book)

with a "RE D/72" notation within a circular rule in blue ink on the front cover endpaper

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed by Pope Gregory XVI(Kriegsabzeichen fr Hilfskreuzer). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central depiction of a Viking longship sailing over the Northern Hemisphere, the reverse with a single rivet securing the obverse applique in place, with a crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a