Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, First Pattern, by Schwerin Newly Listed German Social Welfare Medal

German Social Welfare Medal

without brooch pinback

000 medals were issued

112 mm x 33 mm

small black and white photograph)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, First Pattern, by Schwerin Newly Listed German Social Welfare Medal(Schnellbootkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle, surrounding a central depiction of an S Boat cutting through waves, the reverse with a block hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, topped by a stabilizer, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, bearing additional illegible hand etched