Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge by Emil Ferdinand Wiedmann - Variant 1 GTRexclude otherwise VF

otherwise VF

demonstrating moderate loss of silver finish to the base metal

A single horizontal slit for the accommodation of a dagger is found at the lower left breast

Awarded in Schless-Hamburg in April 1916

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge by Emil Ferdinand Wiedmann - Variant 1 GTRexclude otherwise VF(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Instituted October 13th, 1939. (Mid to Late War Issue) A textbook example by this maker, constructed of gilded zinc, 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 superimposed over a hollow void, the reverse with a sheet metal hinge depicting the signature lily pad base, with a straight