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both measuring 45 mm (w) x 104 mm (l)

the three and nine o’clock arms etched ‘No 32289”

and when the chin strap is fed through the buckle on the left side

Footnote: Thomas Herbert was born in Collingwood in 1890

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Breast Eagle Auction Archive Gheorghiu-Dej increased the popularity of(Kriegsmarine Brustadler fr Offiziere). Constructed of dark blue wool, the obverse bearing a hand embroidered gold bullion wire Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse retaining a mostly intact paper liner, unmarked, measuring 110 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), in uniform removed and near extremely fine condition.