Italy, Kingdom. An Honour Badge of Italian Personnel Training in Germany, Silver Grade Buy Now Footnote: After the Franco-Prussian war

Footnote: After the Franco-Prussian war symbolic jewelry became extremely popular in France as a way to display patriotism for the lost territories of Alsace and Lorraine

An early and desirable version in nickel silver

on dark green wool backing

a British-made flotilla leader was commissioned with the idea that the KM might be able to operate in the Mediterranean alongside the British and French navies

measuring 33 mm (w) x 42

Italy, Kingdom. An Honour Badge of Italian Personnel Training in Germany, Silver Grade Buy Now Footnote: After the Franco-Prussian warConstructed of a silvered metal alloy, the obverse consisting of a pair of crossed swords, superimposed over oak leaves, and overlaid by a central fasces defaced by a mobile swastika, the reverse featuring an off centre crimped disc formerly accommodating a horizontal pinback, unmarked, measuring 49. 42 mm (w) x 31. 25 mm (h), in addition to the missing pinback the base metal demonstrates moderate loss of silver plating which has pitted and oxidized,