GERMAN WW2 KRIEGSMARINE U-BOAT BADGE, MARKED L/56 + CERTIFICATE
Die struck alloy badge with gold wash finish.
Reverse solid back with vertical hinged broad pin, signed "L/56" (Funcke & Bruninghaus, Ludenscheid). The badges made by Funcke & Bruninghaus are more rare than the badges made "Schwerin-Berlin".
Good condition with wear, some loss to finish.
Badge accompanied by award certificate to: "MATROSENGEFREITEN HANS STEINMETZ" awarded "16 August 1942". Certificate signed and stamped in ink.
SIZE: 50 x 40 mm (2 x 1 1/2 inches). Weight: 22 grams.
CONDITION: The item is described to the best of our knowledge. Please refer to pictures and email with any questions.
We are selling an old collection of Kriegsmarine U-Boat badges which were collected many years.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $1,200 - $1,500.
HISTORY of SALES: A few years ago U-Boat badges (without Certificate) were sold on eMesals for $1,220, $1,300 and $1,450 and on Invaluable auction for $4,000 - please see the screenshots.
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WIKIPEDIA: During World War II, U-boat warfare was the major component of the Battle of the Atlantic, which lasted the duration of the war. Germany had the largest submarine fleet of the revived German War Navy (Kriegsmarine) from 1935 into World War II (1939-1945), since the Armistice of November 11th, 1918 scuttled most of the old Imperial German Navy from the First World War and the following Treaty of Versailles of 1919. This limited the surface navy of Germany's new Weimar Republic to only six battleships (of less than 10,000 tons each), six cruisers, and 12 destroyers. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill later wrote "The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril".

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