Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 4, by B.H. Mayer Newly Listed and bearing three silver aluminum

and bearing three silver aluminum wire tresses (indicating a Sergeant equivalent)

with mesh support backer

with a colour plate placed near the front of the book illustrating twenty ribbons

including one of him wearing his Reichsmarine cap and two ‘Linienschiff Hessen’ on his tally ribbon

30 mm (w) x 91

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 4, by B.H. Mayer Newly Listed and bearing three silver aluminum(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Constructed of gilded and silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a block hinge and shorten banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular plate, maker