Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, First Pattern, by Schwerin Newly Listed 112 mm x 33 mm

112 mm x 33 mm

to his parents William Charlton Cauthers (a carpenter) and his mother

and white and black enamels

without brooch pinback

1869 in Marburg (central Germany)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, First Pattern, by Schwerin Newly Listed 112 mm x 33 mm(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, surrounding a central depiction of an S Boat cutting through waves, the reverse with a block hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, topped by a stabilizer, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, bearing additional illegible hand etched