Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth Hold all three with horizontal pinbacks

all three with horizontal pinbacks

1914-15 Star

50mm (w) x 16

Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force

in addition to age-appropriate material fatigue a crack runs horizontally across the plaque at the mid-section

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, By Friedrich Orth Hold all three with horizontal pinbacks(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine 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, measuring 44. 17 mm (w)