Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation I, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction measuring 105 mm (w) x

measuring 105 mm (w) x 280 mm (h)

marked 65 on ring  (Klein & Quenzer

1919 at Bramshott

forty-one with vertical pinbacks

Instituted 4 February 1936

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation I, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction measuring 105 mm (w) x(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