Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross, By C. F Rothe, C.1900 Auction Archive A 1935 Gautag der NSDAP

A 1935 Gautag der NSDAP Mainfranken badge (28-30

with dark blue wool Kriegsmarine backer

Yet she was the largest research ship ever to explore the Southern Ocean and both the scientists and crew had to take time to get used to a new ship under conditions of intense cold

paper backer peeling back from the tips of the wings and cracked through above the swastika

Three months after the devastating loss of his wife and the children's mother

Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross, By C. F Rothe, C.1900 Auction Archive A 1935 Gautag der NSDAP(Militrverdienstkreuz). Type III. Issued 1865 1914. A silver cross pattee with red and white enameled arms; the obverse with a central white enameled medallion inscribed VERDIENST (German Merit); the reverse fully enameled in white; on a double loop for suspension marked FR for C. F. Rothe, Wien, a Vienna assay mark, and a mark for 800 silver purity; accompanied by its period original tri fold ribbon; measuring 30. 74 mm (w) x 30. 89 mm (h); weighing