Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Adolf Scholze GTRexclude measuring 22 mm (w) x

measuring 22 mm (w) x 24

139 mm x 179 mm)

on a loop for suspension (marked but illegible)

trimmed with golden-yellow bands

Sarah Anne Yabsley and Lillian Blanche Yabsley

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Adolf Scholze GTRexclude measuring 22 mm (w) x(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Constructed of gilded and silvered 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, surrounding a central depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a