Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge Auction Archive The underside of the sweatband

The underside of the sweatband reveals an intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label bearing a maker’s code of “4” and a secondary code of “402197”

which may have crowns

the upper of the crossguard with an ornately engraved leafing pattern within a rope-style border

marked 88 on ring

remaining bright and crisp

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge Auction Archive The underside of the sweatband(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