Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer Auction Brigade or Regiment level

Brigade or Regiment level

Constructed of gilt zink

constructed of cardboard-reinforced dark blue wool and bearing four bands of interwoven silver aluminum wire piping

the exterior bearing an inscription of “MEDAILLE ‘WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42 (OSTMEDAILLE)’” and a maker’s mark of “PAUL MEYBAUER

Officers Badge in Gold - Second Empire

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer Auction Brigade or Regiment level(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat set over a hollow background, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of a design most commonly accredited to B. H. Mayer,