Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Late-War Zink Variant, by Schwerin Auction Archive with a handwritten owner’s surname

with a handwritten owner’s surname of “ROETTECKEN”

on a multi-coloured maple leaf

and some fatigue to the case

measuring 25 mm (w) x 60 mm (l)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Late-War Zink Variant, by Schwerin Auction Archive with a handwritten owner’s surname(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 Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular base, designer marked ADOLF BOCK and maker