Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and a tie clip

and a tie clip

though with Ypres itself closer to the front

gilt wear on the rifle

27 mm x 188 mm)

Dance of Revelstoke

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and a tie clip(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak, 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 with cut out arms, overlaid by a central U Boat situated on a hollow void, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by