Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge, Unmarked by Steinhauer & Lück, Variant I Auction Archive The sleeves are lined in

The sleeves are lined in a beige rayon-cotton blend with repeating single and dual brown rules

Among his known ranks and positions are the following: 3rd Machine Engineer of SMS Brandenburg in the rank of Maschinen-Unteringenieur in 1896

and an overall body length 68 cm

marked "STERLING " on the reverse

Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge, Unmarked by Steinhauer & Lück, Variant I Auction Archive The sleeves are lined in(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