Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden : Softcover

: Softcover

5 cm (w) x 21 cm (h) when viewed from the obverse

(SE- 5062 PTE

small piece of red wool placed behind the voided area

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

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin visually-hidden : Softcover(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