Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, By Förster & Barth GTRexclude and helping the needy

and helping the needy

Naming is engraved in capitals

the medal measuring 36

A Third Reich period “Parole Heimat - Reserve hat ruh” (Our motto is homeland - the reserves rest” badge

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Blockade Runner Badge, By Förster & Barth GTRexclude and helping the needy(Abzeichen fr Blockadebrecher). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular chain wreath, with a central blockade runner cutting through waves, with the bow overlaid by a German national eagle in mid flight and clutching a swastika, the reverse with a raised crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Frster & Barth, Pforzheim, measuring