Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge Miniature Pin Auction 24th and 87th Infantry Battalions

24th and 87th Infantry Battalions and the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles

It was unusual in being issued officially and at the expense of the Duke of Aosta

and by those who were wounded in North Africa

his Soldier’s Release Book Class "A" (named to Warrant Officer 2nd Class A

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge Miniature Pin Auction 24th and 87th Infantry Battalions(Blockadebrecher Anstecknadel). Constructed of zink, the obverse with a large ship breaking through waves with a large eagle clutching a mobile swastika on its stern, surrounded by a border of silvered chains being broken by the ship near the bottom, the reverse plain, unmarked, measuring 26 mm in diameter with a 50 mm long needle, in near extremely fine condition.