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 suffering only a lost button

suffering only a lost button and a broken pencil

(21° Divisione fanteria "Granatieri di Sardegna") In die-stamped bronze gilt with black enamels

It begins with Notes to Users

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 suffering only a lost button(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