Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery Badge, Wartime Example with Postwar Finish, by Rudolf Souval consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac known as a "chancre"

known as a "chancre"

Constructed of multiple layers of multi-coloured cotton

" His skipper

the badge with scattered gilt wear and contact

/ SOMME 1917 / FRANCE 1918")

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery Badge, Wartime Example with Postwar Finish, by Rudolf Souval consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac known as a "chancre"(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). Constructed of gilded and toned 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, surrounding a coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch emanating from a circular