Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By Förster & Barth Hold with a black ink maker’s

with a black ink maker’s mark of “HOLZ & BINKOWSKI” stamped onto the right side

1901 in Woolwich

Die struck badge in gilded and patinated tombac

Rambahadur Limbu (original signature "R G Limbu V

Mills Corregidor

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By Förster & Barth Hold with a black ink maker’s(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, around a central depiction of an exploding sea mine, the revere with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of