Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth Auction Archive A 1939 Kreistag der NSDAP

A 1939 Kreistag der NSDAP Alsfeld-Lauterbach badge

the reverse medallion presents the cypher LSL on a red enamel field

painted obverse centrepiece

Shortly after becoming Colonel

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth Auction Archive A 1939 Kreistag der NSDAP(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,