Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge By Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive Blackwater Fever

Blackwater Fever

A group of Third Reich period badges

by Ivan Georgievich Spassky

(NSDAP Jugend): In silvered stamped steel

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge By Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive Blackwater Fever(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, 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, around a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Steinhauer &