Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge, Unmarked by Steinhauer & Lück, Variant I Newly Listed one depicting Meyering’s Knight’s Cross

one depicting Meyering’s Knight’s Cross

Footnote: Alexander McDougall McBain was born on October 4

The lid features a gilt embossed NSDAP-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Volume II is the second of four volumes covering the following states: Denmark through Germany (up to Saxony)

Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge, Unmarked by Steinhauer & Lück, Variant I Newly Listed one depicting Meyering’s Knight’s Cross(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