Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac in gold and enamels

in gold and enamels

maker marked on reverse under pin for Adolf Scholze

stamped "JOE

which rests upon the cap’s black leather visor

circumscribing the firm’s logo of a humanoid figure working a water pump

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, Variation 2, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac in gold and enamels(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). 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 Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central destroyer cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with a stabilizer