Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge Auction Archive measuring 155 mm in length

measuring 155 mm in length

remaining bright and crisp

marked 88 on ring

for his services to Ireland at Easter 1916"

small pennant

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge Auction Archive measuring 155 mm in length(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, 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, around a central depiction of a sea mine exploding, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of