Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer Auction Footnote: The medal was instituted

Footnote: The medal was instituted on May 6

10) A First War Black Wound Badge

arriving on the 18th

with extremely small flake on 3 o'clock arm

measuring 160 mm x 160 mm x 23

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer Auction Footnote: The medal was instituted(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). A badge constructed of gilded tombac in the shape of a horizontally oriented oval laurel wreath, with a national eagle placed on top of the badge clutching a mobile swastika (swastika filed off), and with a submarine superimposed in the center of the badge, the reverse plain, with a vertical coke bottle shaped pin, a barrel hinge, and a round wire catch, pin marked L 18 for B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim, measuring 48. 36 mm (w) x