Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 4, by B.H. Mayer United Republic of the hanger demonstrates the loss

the hanger demonstrates the loss of most of the gilt finish to the metal fixtures

Captain AM

the latter retaining an original brown leather strap embossed with an illegible maker’s mark circumscribing a date of “1940”

April/June 1983

Leier was appointed a Reserve-Offizier-Bewerber (R

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 4, by B.H. Mayer United Republic of the hanger demonstrates the loss(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Constructed of gilded and silvered feinzink, 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 depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a block hinge and shorten banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular plate, maker