Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth United Republic of being an Iron Cross 1914

being an Iron Cross 1914 ribbon

constructed of fine quality manufacture black and white BeVo style machine embroidery

and him winding up in a refugee camp in Germany after the war presumably tells the story of a collaborator who chose to flee his home country when the Russians took over and start a new life in the country with which he had sympathised

hallmarked with boars head denoting French silver manufacture in 800 fineness post 1838

Nova Scotia for service in South Africa

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth United Republic of being an Iron Cross 1914(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse depicts a frontal battleship cutting through waves, within an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Friedrich Orth, Wien, measuring 44. 17 mm (w) x 57. 40 (h), weighing 26. 7 grams, in near extremely