Germany, Ss. A Mint Ss Officer’s Sleeve Eagle Archive Badge with a bronze gilt

Badge with a bronze gilt eagle

Footnote: The Navy Medal of Honor was established by President Abraham Lincoln on December 21

both tabs displaying a shiny metallic death’s head constructed of fine quality hand-embroidered aluminum/silver bullion wire wound around a white core

an unmarked example

the cufftitle is bordered at both the top and bottom edges in horizontally woven

Germany, Ss. A Mint Ss Officer’s Sleeve Eagle Archive Badge with a bronze giltA mint SS Officers sleeve eagle; hand embroidered in heavy silver bullion, superimposed on black wool; buckram backing (a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue) with intact black paper backing; measuring 93 mm x 42 mm; a textbook RZM type, in mint and un issued condition.