Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation II, by Richard Simm & Söhne Archive maker marked with an "AS"

maker marked with an "AS" in a triangle (Adolf Scholze) on the reverse

constructed of finely detailed stamped silvered feinzink

While in flight

with the interior presented a speckled brown pattern with silver Japanese characters on the internal lid

measuring 20 cm in diameter

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation II, by Richard Simm & Söhne Archive maker marked with an "AS"(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a Kriegsmarine battleship cutting through waves and executed in exceptional detail, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a crimped base, maker marked