Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin Archive measuring 120 mm (w) x

measuring 120 mm (w) x 335 mm (h)

1918 at Aldershot Camp

Footnote: Believed that the Order of Dannebrog was instituted by King Christian V in 1671 as a revival of an alleged older order instituted by King Valdemar Sejr in 1219

surrounded by the inscription "KOENIG PREUSSEN FRIEDRICH WILHELM III"

centrepieces with the cypher and lettering in gold

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin Archive measuring 120 mm (w) x(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 black hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK and maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 43. 88 mm