Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden : Softcover

: Softcover

Instituted 27 December 1907 by Kaiser Wilhelm II

marked on end ring with a silver hallmark denoting Austro-Hungarian manufacture between 1872-1922

5 cm (w) x 21 cm (h) when viewed from the obverse

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden : Softcover(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, 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 coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker