Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge with Presentation Box by Schwerin & Sons consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Latin for "By the Grace

Latin for "By the Grace of God") in the centre

Measuring 214 mm (w) x 282 mm (h)

as a part of the reorganization of the infantry

11 mm x 44

constructed of a black cotton-blended base

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge with Presentation Box by Schwerin & Sons consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Latin for "By the Grace(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). Instituted June 4th, 1940. (Mid to late war issue). 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 Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of a destroyer cutting through waves, the reverse with a hinge soldered prone to the reverse with a tapered horizontal pinback meeting a