A Weimar-era veterans sleeve patch depicting the Nordmark regional coat of arms and Frisian-language motto “lewer dod as slov” (“better dead than a slave”)
but commissioned in December 1940 as HMCS Spikenard (K198) in the Royal Canadian Navy
with five aircraft engine pistons inside the wreath
five peaks over 4000 meters
the other is unmarked with dual push pins)
Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross, I Class Newly Listed A Weimar-era veterans sleeve patch(1914 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse). Reinstituted by Kaiser Wilhelm II 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 Issue). A 1914 Iron Cross Second Class, presenting as a Cross Pate of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed silver border, screw back version, the obverse with a raised central W, with the re institution date 1914 in raised numbering on the lower arm, and the royal crown on the upper arm, the reverse plain, unmarked,