Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By Förster & Barth Archive All three medals with original

All three medals with original ribbons and brooch pinbacks

This is an extensive and fascinating lot of awards

of the Medal of Honor or the French Médaille Militaire who served in France or French possessions during the First World War of the Second World War

maker marked “PETZ U

and stamp was punched before two sides were joint

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By Förster & Barth Archive All three medals with original(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Constructed of gilded and patinated zink, 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, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Frster & Barth, Pforzheim,