a retirement certificate (to Franz)
with the stabilizer catch broken off
crazing and chipping evident in the red enamels on the star points
and propaganda of the Nazis Allow forced foreign labourers to listen to listen to the broadcasts of Radio Luxemburg Listen to the instructions of the High Command of the Allied Forces Spread the truth of Germany’s Radio London
Accompanied by its inner case of issue
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Rare S-Boat War Badge, First Pattern, by Schwerin Auction Archive a retirement certificate (to Franz)(Schnellbootkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, 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 central depiction of an S Boat cutting through waves, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch, topped by a stabilizer, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 44. 84
