Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden with maker’s mark/manufactured by Hoffstätter

with maker’s mark/manufactured by Hoffstätter

Stitched onto the crown is an intact transparent plastic rhomboid moisture guard which bears the maker’s mark of Clemens Wagner

1 Detachment Canadian Ordnance Corps at Liphook on June 18th

The back identifies the photo as a Swedish press picture

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden with maker’s mark/manufactured by Hoffstätter(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). 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 clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 43. 95 mm