Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge By Schwerin & Sohn Newly Listed awarded to Hauptmann Alfons Schill

awarded to Hauptmann Alfons Schill

Third postcard illustrates a zeppelin flying over Kiel on the obverse

Deumer - Magnetic core

a 1914 Iron Cross

age soiling on the papered reverse of the frame

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge By Schwerin & Sohn Newly Listed awarded to Hauptmann Alfons Schill(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse depicting an oval oak wreath, topped by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, with a central coastal artillery gun pointing toward the top left, extending past the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked Schwerin, Berlin, measuring 41. 9 mm x 54. 6 mm, weighing 23. 7 grams, gilding is gone,