Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Schwerin & Sohn Auction an additional strap below wrapped

an additional strap below wrapped around the body of the scabbard

each trimmed with orange piping and bearing a single machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire tresse

he was presumed and posthumously promoted to Major and awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross on November 18

light blue and gray embroidery

poems and stories throughout the book

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Schwerin & Sohn Auction an additional strap below wrapped(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 43. 92 mm (w) x