Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge United Republic of Waffen-SS Dutch Volunteer’s Sleeve Shield

Waffen-SS Dutch Volunteer’s Sleeve Shield - this is German made official shield

1938 until February 8

Badge - silver gilt eight point star of filed rays with a red enamel point cross and blue enamel centerpiece bearing gilt helmet insignia

maker marked between the three and six o’clock quadrant with “FR” for Gebrüder Friedländer

A blue mess jacket presenting as a double-breasted dinner jacket

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge United Republic of Waffen-SS Dutch Volunteer’s Sleeve Shield(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, with a central U Boat set across the badge over a hollow background, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 48. 90 mm (w) x 40. 16 mm (h), weighing 24. 1