Germany, Kriegsmarine. An E-Boat War Badge, II Pattern, By Schwerin GTRexclude 6 cm (w) x 5

6 cm (w) x 5

An exquisite and very well-preserved NSDAP desk eagle from the estate of SS-Obergruppenführer Arthur Seyss Inquart

) Crossing the inadequately mapped Stanovoy Mountains in Siberia proved to be a precarious venture with the Graf eventually being forced to climb to 6

in its box of issue

and was flying a Halifax aircraft

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An E-Boat War Badge, II Pattern, By Schwerin GTRexclude 6 cm (w) x 5(Schnellboot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central E Boat cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with a central stabilizing pin,