Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Em/Nco’s Service Belt Buckle, By Josef Feix & Söhne Auction Archive One-piece die struck silvered wings

One-piece die struck silvered wings

the reverse center presents a crowned blue enamelled field with the inscription VIGILANDO ASCENDIMUS

Kriegsmarine Officer’s Breast Eagle - in hand embroidered gilded bullion wire on top of dark blue wool

the CVSM box containing the CVSM clasp envelope

maker marked “Frank & Reif

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Em/Nco’s Service Belt Buckle, By Josef Feix & Söhne Auction Archive One-piece die struck silvered wingsA textbook example of a worn Wehrmacht Heer (Army) EM NCOs service belt buckle; constructed of steel with its traditional grey finish; the obverse with a circular rope with the lower half of the circle filled with an oak leaf wreath, and the other half inscribed Gott Mit Uns (God with Us), with a smaller circular rope, with a raised lightly textured field with a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika in its talons; the reverse maker marked JFS