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 consisting of a leftward-facing eagle’s

consisting of a leftward-facing eagle’s head

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

Despite this application being rejected

overlaid by a handwritten dedication from AH reading “DEM GENOSSEN WILLY MESSERSCHMITT

the King's crown version measuring 46

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 consisting of a leftward-facing eagle’s(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