Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden Instituted 27 December 1907 by

Instituted 27 December 1907 by Kaiser Wilhelm II

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

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

small piece of red wool placed behind the voided area

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden Instituted 27 December 1907 by(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