Germany, Freikorps. A Rare Gotha Comrades’ Association of Freikorps Fighters Membership Pin Archive and contaminated with grain-like dirt

and contaminated with  grain-like dirt

Silver hallmarked on reverse

launching her torpedoes by local direction at an enemy battleship

each constructed of off-white paper with black ink and measuring 145 mm (w) x 105 mm (h)

the obverse bearing a raised and rightward-facing profile of Prince Friedrich of Prussia

Germany, Freikorps. A Rare Gotha Comrades’ Association of Freikorps Fighters Membership Pin Archive and contaminated with grain-like dirt(Kameradschaft Freikorps Kmpfer Gotha Mitgliedsabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse bearing a central black enameled shield defaced by a silvered Totenkopf (indicating veterans of the Freikorps campaign in the Baltic region), surrounded by a red enameled border bearing a gilt inscription of KAMERADSCHAFT FREIKORPS KMPFER GOTHA (GOTHA COMRADES ASSOCIATION OF FREIKORPS FIGHTERS), unmarked, measuring 16. 58