Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Schwerin Archive were not without causes of

were not without causes of reproach

which his wife "K" subsequently discovered while in England in 1946

constructed of metal (magnetic) and a lightly faded black/white photograph

hand embroidered in heavily padded flat and rounded silvered bullion wires

In as-found condition

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Schwerin Archive were not without causes of(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, the obverse depicts a frontal battleship cutting through waves, within an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, marked with designer Adolf Bock and manufacturer Schwerin, Berlin, measuring 43. 92 mm (w) x 56. 93 (h), weighing 32.