Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Rudolf Karneth & Sohn Republic of Athletic Meeting

Athletic Meeting

(Ordenschnallen)

with the obverse bearing a raised DRK-style German national eagle clutching a Geneva Cross and overlaid by a mobile swastika

with the original box of issue

marked with the RZM (Reichszeugmeisterei) insignia and maker marked "M1/170" (B

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Rudolf Karneth & Sohn Republic of Athletic Meeting(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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Rudolf Karneth &