Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac encircled by the inscription L’UNION

encircled by the inscription L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE (Unity Is Strength)

Despite this application being rejected

(British War Relief Society) PAT

consisting of a leftward-facing eagle’s head

overlaid by a handwritten dedication from AH reading “DEM GENOSSEN WILLY MESSERSCHMITT

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac encircled by the inscription L’UNION(Flotten Kriegsabzeichen). Instituted April 30th, 1941. Constructed of gilded and silvered tombac, consisting of an oval oak wrath joined together at the base by a ribbon and topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depicting of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse is plain with a flat barrel hinge, vertical banjo style pinback, and rightward opening flat wire catch, designer marked Adolf Bock and