Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Funcke & Brüninghaus Hold A scarce and impressive looking

A scarce and impressive looking badge

1918 (London Gazette

New York 1921 Medal (in bronze gilt

with its paws frontward and stacked

suspended from a 115 mm-long gilded bronze chain completing in a needle at one end and in a button at the opposite end

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Funcke & Brüninghaus Hold A scarce and impressive looking(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, 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 barrel hinge and tapering magnetic metal pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Funcke & Brninghaus,