Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Förster & Barth Archive (Hausorden vom Goldenen Löwen

(Hausorden vom Goldenen Löwen

Both the obverse and reverse feature acid-etched designers

President in 1959

with embossed Legion of Merit insignia and War Office Seal

(1890-1917)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Förster & Barth Archive (Hausorden vom Goldenen Löwen(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat superimposed over a hollow void, the reverse with a crimped hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with LDO code L 21 for Frster & Barth, Pforzheim, measuring 48. 80 mm