Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Disputed Deumer Variant consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac moderate scratching and material fatigue

moderate scratching and material fatigue is evident throughout the exterior liner and the cover and the cover border is missing its gilt finish indicating a possible unfinished and unissued example

A matching set of new-old stock Luftwaffe Field Division Marksman rank collar tabs

His personal effects were returned to his mother from the Kansas City Quartermaster Depot in Kansas City

but his ship was lost on the Dutch coast

A grouping of three Third Reich period police shoulder boards

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Disputed Deumer Variant consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac moderate scratching and material fatigue(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, surrounding a central depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a block hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve