Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, First Variation by Schwerin Archive featuring a nickel-plated magnetic metal

featuring a nickel-plated magnetic metal blade 360 mm in length

Middle Village

The collar is in black bear fur and is stitched in place to a strip of black cotton

There was definitely some discrepancy in his age

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, First Variation by Schwerin Archive featuring a nickel-plated magnetic metal(Schnellbootkriegsabzeichen). 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 cut out mobile swastika, surrounding a central S Boat cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular