Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by C.E. Juncker Newly Listed An early 1900s manufacture

An early 1900s manufacture

Latin: Supremus Ordo Militaris Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani Rhodius et Melitensis)

therefore awarded between 1914-16

topped by a layer of fine woven silver aluminum wire threading

Its primary task was the care of over 130

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by C.E. Juncker Newly Listed An early 1900s manufacture(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). 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 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a flattened catch emanating from a circular plate, designer marked OTTO PLACZEK,