Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Josef Feix & Sons certificate_of_authenticity Pionier-Bataillon 214/Minenwerfer-Kompanie 424

Pionier-Bataillon 214/Minenwerfer-Kompanie 424

Henry Clinton

to his father Wilhelm Friedrich Bahr

number "No 290739" impressed on the reverse

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Josef Feix & Sons certificate_of_authenticity Pionier-Bataillon 214/Minenwerfer-Kompanie 424(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). Instituted June 4th, 1940. (mid to late war manufacture). A textbook example by this maker, 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 Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of a destroyer cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped ball hinge, straight horizontal