Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth Newly Listed measuring 48 mm (w) x

measuring 48 mm (w) x 72

In silvered and gilt bronze with red and white enamels

with deep toning

50 mm (w) x 34

original lugs severed

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth Newly Listed measuring 48 mm (w) x(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Friedrich Orth, Vienna, measuring 44. 17 mm (w)