1st Pattern Torpedo Boat Badge. Maker 26. Published(!)

Zink based and in a good, probably unworn condition. The gilt wash all still present but as usual faded to a light yellow, the boat with all if the silver plate, the waves dark oxidised.
Marked on the pin with „26“ for the company of B.H. Mayer, Pforzheim. See GCA-Datenbank. The reverse still with hand written sales price of „3.75“.
Exactly this badge shown in the Weber/Skora, book, The War Badges of the Kriegsmarine, on pages 540/541, also in Williamson on Page 242 and in the GCA database
One of only a few known existing examples. Rare chance to add a, in several books published, reference badge to the collection (!).