Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac standard buckram backing covered by

standard buckram backing covered by black felt

passing away in 1965)

Air Photographer and Flight Engineer

with “fissures” at the bottom of the clasp (a good indication of the originality)

A Private Forestry Official’s belt buckle

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac standard buckram backing covered by(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and patinated zink, the obverse consisting of a oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Friedrich Orth, Vienna,