the reverse bearing an inscription of “ROTES KREUZ KRIEGS-HILFSBURO KRIEGSFÜRSORGE AMT 1914-1915” (“RED CROSS WAR ASSISTANCE OFFICE FOR CARE OF WAR WOUNDED 1914-1915”)
The back identifies the photo as a Swedish press picture
Stitched onto the crown is an intact transparent plastic rhomboid moisture guard which bears the maker’s mark of Clemens Wagner
with maker’s mark/manufactured by Hoffstätter
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden the reverse bearing an inscription(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 43. 95 mm