Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth United Republic of 40 mm (w) x 23

40 mm (w) x 23

5) A Prussian Long Service ribbon

Instituted 21 November 1912 by Vittorio Emanuele III of Savoy

JANUAR 1851” with laurel and oak leaf branches

showing loss of all black enamels

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth United Republic of 40 mm (w) x 23(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Wehrmacht 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, measuring 43. 30 mm (w) x 56.