Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn United Republic of The medal mounted to a

The medal mounted to a cardboard panel with an award document glued in place (the document illustrating four gold stars

Footnote: The Order of the Sword was instituted on 23 February 1748 by King Frederick I

It is one of very few containing symbolism adopted from ducal portrait seals rather than from coats of arms of dynasties

A 1937 Erlangen NSRL (National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise/Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen) Erlangen Kreisfest badge

over top of a Reichsbahn logo of a winged wheel

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn United Republic of The medal mounted to a(Flotten Kriegsabzeichen). Instituted April 30th, 1941. Constructed of gilded and silvered tombac, consisting of an oval oak wrath joined together at the base by a ribbon and topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depicting of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse is plain with a flat barrel hinge, vertical banjo style pinback, and rightward opening flat wire catch, designer marked Adolf Bock and