Description
(Orden del Mérito)
the sides bearing highly detailed etched designs consisting of Slovak Schnelle Division (Rýchla Divízia) insignia consisting of a Slovak eagle overlaid by a coat of arms and clutching a fasces
constructed of a padded black wool base
47 mm x 25 mm
Dresden" with a personalized inscription in pencil
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By Foerster & Barth Hold (Orden del Mérito)(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a U Boat set against a hollow background, the reverse with a crimped hinge and and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the physical characteristics of manufacture by Foerster & Barth,