Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Unmarked Variation 1 Example, by Funcke & Brüninghaus Hold including a Soviet Medal for

including a Soviet Medal for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War

72nd Seaforth Highlanders Cadet's Beret Badge

Footnote: The Order of Military Merit was instituted on October 18

towards the top of the badge is a red and white enamelled shield featuring the black enamelled cipher of Karl I

on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with stick pin

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Unmarked Variation 1 Example, by Funcke & Brüninghaus Hold including a Soviet Medal for(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 situated over a hollow void, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering magnetic metal pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular plate, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of