with maker’s mark/manufactured by Hoffstätter
He was drafted on January 7
the Navy informed his father that he had been declared Missing in Action
Stitched onto the crown is an intact transparent plastic rhomboid moisture guard which bears the maker’s mark of Clemens Wagner
1994 in Montreal
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden with maker’s mark/manufactured by Hoffstätter(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). 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 clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN, measuring 43. 95 mm