Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, First Pattern, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac secured shut via a scalloped

secured shut via a scalloped flap

first as a trade school and then as a classic liceum after the 1912 declaration of Albania's independence from the Ottoman Empire

steel construction

small tarnish mark on the reverse

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, First Pattern, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac secured shut via a scalloped(Schnellbootkriegsabzeichen). 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, surrounding a central depiction of an S Boat cutting through waves, the reverse with a block hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, topped by a stabilizer, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, bearing additional illegible hand etched