Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer certificate_of_authenticity padded and exhibiting the impressions

padded and exhibiting the impressions of the Grand Officer Badge and Breast Star

marked on reverse plate “ANCNE MAISON PECK-OLIVIER

The scabbard is constructed of black-painted steel with nickel-silver fittings

the first three with original ribbons sewn together at the rear

with fingermarks on the inside front cover endpaper

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer certificate_of_authenticity padded and exhibiting the impressions(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak, 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 set over a hollow background, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of a design most commonly accredited to B. H. Mayer,