Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden Footnote: Klaipėda is a city

Footnote: Klaipėda is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast

Instituted 27 December 1907 by Kaiser Wilhelm II

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

small piece of red wool placed behind the voided area

This is a well preserved Austrian Gendarmerie/Police cap in the style of the well-known M43 cap

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden Footnote: Klaipėda is a city(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