Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge, Unmarked by Steinhauer & Lück, Variant I Newly Listed DICKENS" on the reverse

DICKENS" on the reverse

Juni 1917 abgeschossen" (RIP / Corporal Erich Richter / Field Pilot of K

set on a 102 mm-long bronze bar with a horizontal pinback

(King Juan Carlos

Footnote: Alexander McDougall McBain was born on October 4

Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge, Unmarked by Steinhauer & Lück, Variant I Newly Listed DICKENS" on the reverse(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Instituted in April 1941. Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the base by a ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a raised sheet metal hinge, with a slightly tapered vertical pinback, and a flat stamped catch, an unmarked example but