Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Type II, Variation 1 by Schwerin Province of China with a brown embroidered anchor

with a brown embroidered anchor in the centre

Minor material fatigue is visible to the base material

(impressed: T

buttonholes for uniform attachment with two non-matching silvered pebbled aluminum buttons

near Cayuga

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Type II, Variation 1 by Schwerin Province of China with a brown embroidered anchor(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 mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of an S Boat cutting through waves, the reverse with a barrel hinge and wide horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular plate, designer marked W. E. PEEKHAUS, BERLIN and