Serving Brother/Sister Breast Badge (two-piece construction
the US Liberty ship John Harvey carrying a secret cargo of WWI type mustard bombs
the center of the crescent with a five-pointed star backed by crossed scimitars or temgha swords (sometimes referred to as swords of war)
Joseph August's grandfather had been Palatine Joseph of Hungary (1776 - 1847)
decorated basket hilt with Queen Elizabeth II cipher
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 4, by B.H. Mayer Province of China Serving Brother/Sister Breast Badge (two-piece(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Constructed of gilded and silvered feinzink, 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 depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a block hinge and shorten banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular plate, maker