Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the King's crown version measuring

the King's crown version measuring 46

Despite this application being rejected

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that he had no previous military service and that his trade was that of Teamster

encircled by the inscription L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE (Unity Is Strength)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the King's crown version measuring(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