Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth certificate_of_authenticity dated to 1940

dated to 1940

declaring "WAR OVER

the image of the Order embossed

measuring 43 mm (w) x 63 mm (h)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth certificate_of_authenticity dated to 1940(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Friedrich Orth, Vienna, measuring 44. 17 mm (w)