Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation II, by Richard Simm & Söhne Auction Archive the twelve o’clock arm bearing

the twelve o’clock arm bearing a date of “1914”

with the receiving post used to lock the scabbard in place to the sword itself located just above the code and beside the throat

marked "Kanselarij der Nederlandse Orden 's-Gravenhage" (Chancellery of the Netherlands Orders The Hague) and exhibiting the impressions of the once present badge and breast star

a five point white enamel star with ball finials

silver-gilt and enamel

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation II, by Richard Simm & Söhne Auction Archive the twelve o’clock arm bearing(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 Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a Kriegsmarine battleship cutting through waves and executed in exceptional detail, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a crimped base, maker marked