Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin Archive topped by a golden-yellow machine-embroidered

topped by a golden-yellow machine-embroidered insignia

South America (white embroidery on black wool

Instituted 24 September 1914

) on reverse

Both removed from the uniform

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin Archive topped by a golden-yellow machine-embroidered(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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 43. 90 mm