Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 1, by Steinhauer & Lück visually-hidden with brass plaque on top

with brass plaque on top engraved “La Armada a su Caudillo Almirante en of VII Centenario de la Marina de Castilla 12 Octubre 1

He was drafted under the Military Service Act of 1917 and signed his Particulars of Recruit Paper on January 23

1897 in Battle Creek

A multi-piece dark grey rayon liner fully encompasses the interior

A mixed lot of Heer studio portraits

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 1, by Steinhauer & Lück visually-hidden with brass plaque on top(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, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular plate, unmarked but demonstrating the