Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation I, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction suspended from a hollow crown

suspended from a hollow crown and large broad loop suspension from a period original neck ribbon

Commander (III Class Knight)

printed on wartime postcard paper

Instituted 4 February 1936

It has two pleated scalloped edged pockets on the chest and two horizontal flat edged pockets on the bottom

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation I, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction suspended from a hollow crown(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, 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, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped hinge and widening pin meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular base, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a