Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Förster & Barth GTRexclude 1898 and the announcement appearing

1898 and the announcement appearing in the London Gazette 27012 of Friday

The elasticized straps at either end have leather tabs stitched in place

Footnote: This firm is currently unidentified as to who they are

an Army Senior Parachutist Badge (silver

Lüdenscheid) and marked with the stylized Assmann "A" above

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Förster & Barth GTRexclude 1898 and the announcement appearing(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded feinzink, 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 central U Boat situated over a hollow void, the reverse with a crimped hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Frster & Barth, Pforzheim,