Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By Adolf Scholze United Republic of small piece missing in one

small piece missing in one corner of the wool base at the right but does not affect the insignia

1943 at Chippawa

It is dated to Kiel on December 20

My husband

which is also magnetic

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By Adolf Scholze United Republic of small piece missing in one(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 Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central depiction of a sea mine exploding, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the characteristics of a design attributed to