Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge Auction Archive for his services to Ireland

for his services to Ireland at Easter 1916"

measuring 155 mm in length

remaining bright and crisp

surrounded by a 13 star on scalloped blue-enamelled frame

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge Auction Archive for his services to Ireland(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