Austria, Empire. An Officer's Shako Plume, C.1910 Auction Knight’s breast badge

Knight’s breast badge

An Iron Cross 2nd Class 1939 by Hermann Aurich - Silver frame with iron core

and by the highest form of individual courage

a Gau Bayerische-Ostmark badge

particularly SMS Dresden while hiding in the Straits of Magellan

Austria, Empire. An Officer's Shako Plume, C.1910 Auction Knight’s breast badgePlume in a bright white horsehair wrapped around a stiff white core that is wrapped in white feathers, the horsehair very smooth and fine to the touch, with a white synthetic ring affixed by a thin twisted wire support that emerges from underneath a three level feathered skirt at the base, the feathers in red, white and blue, the feathered skirt butting a large knot composed of twenty four rows of rolled gold coloured bullion wire wrapped around a