Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Late-War Zink Variant, by Schwerin Republic of This type of cloth badge

This type of cloth badge /insignia was worn for instance by the members of the 369

1943 and is signed by Wing Commodore

the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo-style pinback meeting a flattened and overhanging catch

maker marked with the logo of Stahlhof Magdeburg

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Late-War Zink Variant, by Schwerin Republic of This type of cloth badge(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). 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 mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular base, designer marked ADOLF BOCK and maker