Germany, Third Reich. A U-Boat War Badge, By Friedrich Orth, Variation Two Archive 48 mm x 101 mm

48 mm x 101 mm

Stamped bronze

with postcard address backer

Left side of the folded-over end has embroidered manufacturer’s trade name "Bevo-Wuppertal"

Germany, Third Reich. A U-Boat War Badge, By Friedrich Orth, Variation Two Archive 48 mm x 101 mm(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Re instituted on October 13, 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). An oval laurel wreath constructed of gilded zink, tied together at the base via a ribbon, with a national eagle placed on top of the badge clutching a mobile swastika, and a submarine in the center of the badge, the reverse plain, with a horizontal needle style pinback, a sheet metal hinge, and a round wire catch, marked f. o for Friedrich Orth on the reverse, but also