Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin Archive the detailing in the wings

the detailing in the wings

privately engraved on the Khedive's Sudan Medal

8mm (w) x 5

the reverse featuring a lengthy handwritten inscription to a recipient in Hannover

but as hostilities had ceased the week before his examination

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin Archive the detailing in the wings(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK and maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, using the latters