Germany, Kriegsmarine. A 13th U-Boat Flotilla Trench Art Plaque certificate_of_authenticity 3rd Class Medal for Nine

3rd Class Medal for Nine Years' Service (silvered bronze

with scattered surface wear and pitting

6 mm (h) x 86

the original blue crescent hanger

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A 13th U-Boat Flotilla Trench Art Plaque certificate_of_authenticity 3rd Class Medal for Nine(13. Unterseebootsflottille Gedenktafel). Constructed of hand carved and lightly varnished wood, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised depiction of a Viking longship cutting throughout waves in a style used as an emblem by the 13th U Boat Flotilla (based in Trondheim, Norway), the reverse topped by two metal rivets for the accommodation of a hanging string, retaining an early postwar label bearing a handwritten dedication from a