constructed of fine quality manufacture black and white BeVo style machine embroidery
with a single circular border
maker marked “Hillenbrand & Bröer
still Single and stating his trade was that of Clerk
with an ulcer in his right leg
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth United Republic of constructed of fine quality manufacture(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse depicts a frontal battleship cutting through waves, within an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Friedrich Orth, Wien, measuring 44. 17 mm (w) x 57. 40 (h), weighing 26. 7 grams, in near extremely