Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge with Presentation Box by Schwerin & Sons Hold beginning on August 18

beginning on August 18

a studio portrait of an artillery NCO

having been previously taken on strength by the 6th Reserve Battalion on April 30

but no breaks in the plating surfaces

Arbeitsgau XXVII - In die stamped silvered metal

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge with Presentation Box by Schwerin & Sons Hold beginning on August 18(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). Instituted June 4th, 1940. (Mid to late war issue). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of a destroyer cutting through waves, the reverse with a hinge soldered prone to the reverse with a tapered horizontal pinback meeting a