Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Japanese-Made Auxiliary Cruiser Badge Of Oberbootsmann Karlheinz Cares GTRexclude Rare decoration

Rare decoration

with original Austrian style ribbon

marked “Overhoff & Cie

red paint on the Red Cross Medal experiencing crazing

A 1941-42 Northern Front Cross - In silvered and enameled tombac

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Japanese-Made Auxiliary Cruiser Badge Of Oberbootsmann Karlheinz Cares GTRexclude Rare decorationThe Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge comes directly from Cares family, accompanied by a wartime photo and copies of the pages of his Soldbuch. The badge is constructed of silver, obverse depicts central viking longship sailing over a map of the northern hemisphere, within an oval shaped oak leaf wreath, topped with German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, reverse with a wide barrel hinge and flat pinback meeting a round wire catch, marked on