Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer Auction Archive with fifty-three officers and men

with fifty-three officers and men perishing

1950 (in die-stamped bronze with red and white enamels

X - Cecil J

and Montenegro: Medal for Zeal

missing its ribboned suspension

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer Auction Archive with fifty-three officers and men(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak, 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, with a central U Boat superimposed over the badge over a hollow background, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of variation credited to B. H. Mayer,