Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction maker marked "HE"

maker marked "HE"

An early third reich NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker’s Party/Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) supporter’s/sympathizers badge

1917 but reverted to the rank of Private

marked "Embarked" and dated February 25

with period ribbons

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction maker marked "HE"(Flottenkriegsabzeichen) Constructed of gilded and silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a central frontal battleship cutting through waves, topped by a Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Steinhauer & Lck,