Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn United Republic of Jeanne and Heather

Jeanne and Heather

over top of a Reichsbahn logo of a winged wheel

Footnote: The Order of the Sword was instituted on 23 February 1748 by King Frederick I

the reverse bearing an inscription of “WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/1942” (“WINTER BATTLE IN THE EAST 1941/42” above a crossed sword and laurel branch

The medal mounted to a cardboard panel with an award document glued in place (the document illustrating four gold stars

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn United Republic of Jeanne and Heather(Flotten Kriegsabzeichen). Instituted April 30th, 1941. Constructed of gilded and silvered tombac, consisting of an oval oak wrath joined together at the base by a ribbon and topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depicting of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse is plain with a flat barrel hinge, vertical banjo style pinback, and rightward opening flat wire catch, designer marked Adolf Bock and