Germany, Third Reich. A National Socialist German Navy League Member’s Breast Eagle United Republic of 1940 at Toowooba

1940 at Toowooba

65th Infantry Battalion Collar Badge: in browning copper

hallmarked with a sword on the pin

This was because many of the Merchant seamen were taken as prisoners of war

encircled by a blue enamelled ring with the inscription ЗА НЕЗАВИСИМОСТЪ ЦРНЕ ГОРЕ (For the Independence of Montenegro)

Germany, Third Reich. A National Socialist German Navy League Member’s Breast Eagle United Republic of 1940 at Toowooba(National Sozialistische Deutscher Marine Bund Brustadler). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, the obverse consisting of a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, above a pair of crossed sword and overlaid by an anchor bearing a central black enameled Iron Cross, the reverse with a crimped hinge and horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 95 mm (w) x 52 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.