Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth Auction authored by Roger James Bender

authored by Roger James Bender and Hugh Page Taylor

to reward eminent civil merit (ordonnance n°081/8)

they are unmarked with the exception of a stamped inscription of “SCHWELMA” on the sole toe reinforcement

with an intact interior fabric hinge

including two Ustaša cap badges

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth Auction authored by Roger James Bender(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.