Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation II, by Richard Simm & Söhne Auction Archive Instituted 24 September 1914 by

Instituted 24 September 1914 by Grand Duke Friedrich August

with the receiving post used to lock the scabbard in place to the sword itself located just above the code and beside the throat

the obverse bearing a central machine-embroidered Croatian coat of arms flanked by silver-grey wings

yellow and brown embroidered American Legion insignia

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation II, by Richard Simm & Söhne Auction Archive Instituted 24 September 1914 by(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 Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a Kriegsmarine battleship cutting through waves and executed in exceptional detail, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a crimped base, maker marked