Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Torpedo Boat Crewman’s Cap Band Auction Archive 1918 to Bootsmanns Maat (Boatswain’s

1918 to Bootsmanns Maat (Boatswain’s Mate)

88mm(width) x 25

GUTE DIENSTE” (“FOR LONG AND GOOD SERVICE”)

Purple Heart were displayed at the El Paso Cavalry Museum (now the El Paso Museum of History)

Above the upper right breast flap is an insignia in the form of a green wool patch bearing a detailed hand-embroidered gold bullion wire Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Torpedo Boat Crewman’s Cap Band Auction Archive 1918 to Bootsmanns Maat (Boatswain’s(Torpedoboot Mtzenband). Constructed of black rayon with machine embroidered gold thread inscription reading 1. Torpedobootshalbflottille . 1., unmarked, measuring approximately 1145 mm in length, in extremely fine condition.