Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac It completes with a hooked

It completes with a hooked pommel in the form of a stylized eagle’s head with detailed feathering

the King's crown version measuring 46

(British War Relief Society) PAT

encircled by the inscription L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE (Unity Is Strength)

Despite this application being rejected

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac It completes with a hooked(Flotten Kriegsabzeichen). Instituted April 30th, 1941. Constructed of gilded and silvered tombac, consisting of an oval oak wrath joined together at the base by a ribbon and topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depicting of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse is plain with a flat barrel hinge, vertical banjo style pinback, and rightward opening flat wire catch, designer marked Adolf Bock and