Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, First Variation by Schwerin Archive the Balkans

the Balkans

with an anchor in silver with its rope in rolled silvered bullion wire

Middle Village

encompassed by a bronze border inscribed with “DER DEUTCHEN MUTTER” (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, First Variation by Schwerin Archive the Balkans(Schnellbootkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a cut out mobile swastika, surrounding a central S Boat cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular