Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac In sterling silver or bronze

In sterling silver or bronze gilt with various colours of enamels

standard buckram backing covered by black felt

folded tri-colour ribbon on the reverse

passing away in 1965)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac In sterling silver or bronze(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and patinated zink, the obverse consisting of a oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Friedrich Orth, Vienna,