Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac on short original neck ribbon

on short original neck ribbon as worn

with Prussian eagle in gilt affixed by four rivets

both times at No

to First War Veteran Colonel Samuel Hanford McKee

The shako is flanked on each side by a raised decorative lion’s head

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac on short original neck ribbon(Kriegsabzeichen der Marine Artillerie). 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, around a central depiction of a coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel inge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch,