Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 76mm

measuring 76mm

accompanied by its 37

passing away in 1965)

also in bronze

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 76mm(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and patinated zink, the obverse consisting of a oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine style German national 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,