Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variant IV, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Each shoulder is adorned by

Each shoulder is adorned by a board constructed of cardboard-reinforced dark green wool bases

Photo Album (containing forty-one black and white photographs of various sizes

It begins with Notes to Users

suffering only a lost button and a broken pencil

circumscribed by a Russian Cyrillic inscription describing the scene and date of “1724”

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variant IV, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Each shoulder is adorned by(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch, U Boot Jagd, und Sicherungsverbnde). Instituted August 31st, 1940. (Variant IV mid to late war manufacture) Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse with an oval oak wreath and a central area depicting a sea mine exploding in wavy water, and a national eagle with open wings clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse plain, with a barrel hinge on top of a small plate, a horizontal banjo style pinback, and