Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge By Friedrich Orth Auction Archive and Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps

and Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Collar Tab (in bronze gilt

cross centrepiece loose

the reverse inscribed with the date “13

on May 13th

with an inscription along the edge reading “AUS EROBERTEM GESCHÜTZ” (“FROM CAPTURED CANNON”)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge By Friedrich Orth Auction Archive and Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of zink, the obverse consists of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, with a central frontal battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Friedrich Orth, Wien, measuring 44. 06 mm (w) x 57. 47 mm (h), weighing 24. 0 grams, evidence of period repair