Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin Archive staff and administrative failings

staff and administrative failings

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered red inscription of “H

measuring 32 mm (w) x 410 mm (l)

reverse centre Gold a sword interlaced with a laurel crown and a white sash with the inscription BELL(ICAE) VIRTUTIS PRAEM(IUM) ("reward of wartime valour")

Within case of issue

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin Archive staff and administrative failings(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, 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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK and maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 44. 01 mm