Germany, SS. An SS-Verfügungstruppe/Waffen-SS Cap Button, Late-Issue Unmarked Version visually-hidden small scratches to obverse enamels

small scratches to obverse enamels

In early September 1918

A fine ball-tipped Maltese Cross in diamond-cut silver

The design of the Rising Sun symbolizes energy as powerful as the rising sun in parallel with the "rising sun" concept of Japan ("Land of the Rising Sun")

a backing plate

Germany, SS. An SS-Verfügungstruppe/Waffen-SS Cap Button, Late-Issue Unmarked Version visually-hidden small scratches to obverse enamels(SS Verfgungstruppe Knopf fr das Mannschaftsschiffchen). Constructed of feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised Totenkopf emerging from a pebbled field, the reverse retaining a lug, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of an unmarked variant produced in the late prewar and early wartime period and worn by SS Verfgungstruppe and Waffen SS prior to the introduction of embroidered Totenkopf insignia, measuring 20. 47 mm in diameter, in extremely