Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Torpedo Boat Crewman’s Cap Band Auction Archive each trimmed with orange piping

each trimmed with orange piping and bearing a single machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire tresse

88mm(width) x 25

Purple Heart were displayed at the El Paso Cavalry Museum (now the El Paso Museum of History)

Above the upper right breast flap is an insignia in the form of a green wool patch bearing a detailed hand-embroidered gold bullion wire Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

placed in pairs over three rows

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Torpedo Boat Crewman’s Cap Band Auction Archive each trimmed with orange piping(Torpedoboot Mtzenband). Constructed of black rayon with machine embroidered gold thread inscription reading 1. Torpedobootshalbflottille . 1., unmarked, measuring approximately 1145 mm in length, in extremely fine condition.