Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle Archive bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey inscription

bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey inscription of “AFRIKA” flanked by palm trees

Mossman of Darlington

script on the obverse centrepiece ring and on the reverse centrepiece

Iron Cross First Class 1939 – L/11 - Iron core

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Summer Tunic Breast Eagle Archive bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey inscription(Kriegsmarine Brustadler fr Offizier). Constructed of gilded aluminum, the obverse consisting of a finely detailed Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integral barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the wreathed, marked M indicating Kriegsmarine issue, measuring 94 mm (w) x 38 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.