Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation II, by Richard Simm & Söhne Hold GESCH” on reverse

GESCH” on reverse

sailing from Halifax

7 mm with a horizontal pinback)

49 mm (w) x 36

" inside a full wreath of laurel leaves on the reverse

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation II, by Richard Simm & Söhne Hold GESCH” on reverse(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, surrounding a frontal depiction of a Kriegsmarine battleship cutting through waves and executed in exceptional detail, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a crimped base, maker marked