Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variant IV, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Kingdom: 11th Army Commemorative Cross

Kingdom: 11th Army Commemorative Cross (Croce commemorativa dell'11a armata): in bronze gilt with red and black enamels

with an eagle clutching lightning bolts in the centre

APRIL 1928

circumscribed by a Russian Cyrillic inscription describing the scene and date of “1724”

with hostilities having ceased the following year

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variant IV, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Kingdom: 11th Army Commemorative Cross(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch, U Boot Jagd, und Sicherungsverbnde). Instituted August 31st, 1940. (Variant IV mid to late war manufacture) Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse with an oval oak wreath and a central area depicting a sea mine exploding in wavy water, and a national eagle with open wings clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse plain, with a barrel hinge on top of a small plate, a horizontal banjo style pinback, and