Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin Archive topped by a golden-yellow machine-embroidered

topped by a golden-yellow machine-embroidered insignia

Instituted 24 September 1914

with strict control of workers

each constructed of black wool with buckram cores and trimmed with black threaded and silver aluminum wire piping

Both removed from the uniform

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin Archive topped by a golden-yellow machine-embroidered(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, 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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 43. 90 mm