A Mint Early Quality Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge By Schwerin Of Berlin Auction Archive Before the war he worked

Before the war he worked as a mason

marked "74

SCHMIDT-RAUCH DARMSTADT" on the reverse

obverse illustrating the right-facing bust of Kaiser Wilhelm II

A Mint Early Quality Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge By Schwerin Of Berlin Auction Archive Before the war he workedA mint, fine early quality textbook example of a Flottenkriegsabzeichen; gilded and silvered tombac; oval wreath of oak leaves with a national eagle perched on the top of the badge clutching a swastika and with ribbons tied on the bottom, with a frontal view of a German battleship cutting through the waves; plain reverse; with a vertical slender banjo style pinback with a barrel hinge and a flat wire catch; maker marked Schwerin, Berlin and designer