Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 3, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac each constructed of white wool

each constructed of white wool with buckram cores and trimmed with unusual red cotton-blended piping

A Vietnamese Military Merit Medal

led the first delivery flight in November 1940

17 x 23 cm

58 mm (w) x 65 mm (h))

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 3, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac each constructed of white wool(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 Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock