Kriegsmarine Flottenkriegsabzeichen/High Seas Fleet war badge - thoughts?

[kradman]

Thoughts please on this badge is it a late issue piece as no gold wash and poor details to the port holes on it or a fake ? thank you for any help

[Adrian]

I believe this is an original badge, variant F 1.1.17 on the Classification Table.
Without the hinge and pin it's hard to be definite but going by the footprint of the hinge, I am making a semi educated guess that it's this variant that had the Juncker style hinge and pin.

[martinw]

A late example by Schwerin in zinc.

Cheers,Martin.

[kradman]

Thank you so much