Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Purple heart

Purple heart

Three British destroyers

(British War Relief Society) PAT

overlaid by a handwritten dedication from AH reading “DEM GENOSSEN WILLY MESSERSCHMITT

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Purple heart(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