Austro-Hungarian Empire: WW1 Patriotic Cap
Badge for the "Handels" (Merchant) U-boats
(Submarines).
Inscribed "Handels U-boot"
Maker marked by G. Gurschner in Vienna.
The Merchant Submarines were non combat
vessels designed to brake the Allied blockade
and bring in strategic raw materials for the
Central Powers.
Since they were civilian unarmed vessels with a
civilian crew they thus enjoyed full international
protection as a merchant ship.
Only 2 such Submarine are known - both German
(U-Boat Bremen and U-Boat Deutschland).
A rare badge.270
WW1 1914 1918
Item 100% original
Condition as on the photos
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