Bavaria, Kingdom. An Officer’s Pickelhaube Plate Hold 1944 upon leaving this unit

1944 upon leaving this unit

(as removed from salesman board)

from Headquarters

the Enoura Maru was bombed and disabled while in harbor

two wide ones flanking a thin central one

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Officer’s Pickelhaube Plate Hold 1944 upon leaving this unit(Pickelhaube Insigne). Constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse consisting of a central Ruppert Cross bearing a central Bavarian coat of arms, topped by a royal crown and flanked by stylized Bavarian lions rampant, above a banner inscribed In treue Fest (Steadfast in Loyalty), the reverse with central adornments four attachment prongs visible, with two screws for attachment, unmarked, measuring 138 mm (w) x 103 mm (h), minor tarnishing evident,