Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By Schwerin Newly Listed Band mit Kleindekoration)

Band mit Kleindekoration)

Towards the top are three vertically oriented buttons - one leather bound button

85mm (h – inclusive of surmounting crown and cross adorned horizontally pierced integral ball)

The Order of Isabella the Catholic

As early as 1934 Oshima was stationed in Berlin as a military attaché

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By Schwerin Newly Listed Band mit Kleindekoration)(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central U Boat superimposed over a hollow background, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a design commonly attributed to Schwerin, Berlin, measuring 48. 32 mm (w) x 39. 22 mm (h),