Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant visually-hidden an Order of the Patriotic

an Order of the Patriotic War

Beytrag zu den Annalen der Ritter-Orden by August Gräffen

all bordered with two

gold wound badge

Also emanating from the ring is a two-piece dark grey leather chinstrap which rests upon the visor when not in use

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant visually-hidden an Order of the Patriotic(Kriegsabzeichen fr den Kstenartillerie). 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, surrounding a central 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 round wire catch emanating