the red enamelled text "MERITE DU TRAVAIL" on the obverse exhibiting slight discolouration
The bonnet is topped with a red toorie
A 1935 Gau Appell Halle-Merseburg badge (15-6
situated within an oak leaf frame
A postwar booklet detailing the operational history of Infanterie-Regiment 107
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 4, by Schwerin visually-hidden the red enamelled text "MERITE(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered feinzink, 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 barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK and maker marked SCHWERIN,