Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Schwerin Archive brass support plate)

brass support plate)

with a green enameled war decoration set onto the cross

Its legitimacy was seriously challenged in 1917

just a few days earlier

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Schwerin Archive brass support plate)(U Boot Frontspange). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by crossed swords, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, flanked on each side by six oak leaves, the reverse with an integral hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a replacement catch in the form of a screw which has been riveted through from the obverse, designer marked PEEKHAUS and maker marked