Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn United Republic of Footnote: The Order of the

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

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

It is one of very few containing symbolism adopted from ducal portrait seals rather than from coats of arms of dynasties

1774-1794) was a French woman and royalist accused of trying to assassinate Maximilien Robespierre during the Reign of Terror with two small knives

a unique ring around the ribbon featuring oak leaves

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn United Republic of Footnote: The Order of the(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