Germany, DDR. A Rare National Prize in Gold, Type 2, with Case and Ribbon Bar GTRexclude Navy Mexican Service Medal 1911-1917

Navy Mexican Service Medal 1911-1917

with a plain reverse

Stitched onto the peak of the cap is an insignia consisting of a dark green rayon backer bearing a machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

circa 1970-80 period manufacture

a blue leathered exterior marked UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Germany, DDR. A Rare National Prize in Gold, Type 2, with Case and Ribbon Bar GTRexclude Navy Mexican Service Medal 1911-1917(Nationalpreis der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik in Gold mit Bandschnalle und Etui). Instituted 31 March 1949. (1973 1989 issue). Constructed of 12K Gold, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a rightward facing profile of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, circumscribed by an inscription of DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK, the reverse bearing a wreathed inscription of NATIONAL PREIS (NATIONAL