Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin Auction Archive measuring 40 mm x 42

measuring 40 mm x 42 mm

and fully encompassed by a black rayon liner

with leaf motifs on either side

This was followed a month later by his being placed on command to the Light Trench Mortar Battery on December 5

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin Auction Archive measuring 40 mm x 42(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). 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, around a central depiction of a 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,