Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer Auction LEES & ELLIS BROS

LEES & ELLIS BROS

the waist is lined with a 43 mm wide strip of off-white canvas

unworn and mint

Constructed of gilt zink

Officers Badge in Gold - Second Empire

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer Auction LEES & ELLIS BROS(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat set over a hollow background, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of a design most commonly accredited to B. H. Mayer,