Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Late-War Zink Variant, by Schwerin Auction Archive measuring 25 mm (w) x

measuring 25 mm (w) x 60 mm (l)

Nova Scotia from 1944 to 1945

Acid-etched onto the obverse of the blade is an inscription of “MEINE EHRE HEIßT TREUE” (“MY HONOUR IS LOYALTY”)

with a handwritten owner’s surname of “ROETTECKEN”

the reverse inscribed “Für Auszeichnung im Kriege” (German - For Merit at War)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Late-War Zink Variant, by Schwerin Auction Archive measuring 25 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular base, designer marked ADOLF BOCK and maker