Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge with Presentation Box by Schwerin & Sons Auction Archive with a patent leather support

with a patent leather support between the coupling and the horsehair

with green-enamelled arms

inside liner fabricated from black cotton

the Battleship Iron Duke

with enamel loss to crown

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge with Presentation Box by Schwerin & Sons Auction Archive with a patent leather support(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). Instituted June 4th, 1940. (Mid to late war issue). 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 Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of a destroyer cutting through waves, the reverse with a hinge soldered prone to the reverse with a tapered horizontal pinback meeting a