Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant visually-hidden movement untouched

movement untouched

Beytrag zu den Annalen der Ritter-Orden by August Gräffen

the reverse bearing an indiscernible maker’s logo

Footnote: James Wilson was born in Glasgow Scotland in 1888 and was working as a Logger in British Columbia when he enlisted in March 1916

demonstrating total loss of finish throughout the base metal with some oxidation

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant visually-hidden movement untouched(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