Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Friedrich Linden Auction measuring 45 mm (w) x

measuring 45 mm (w) x 49

George Garrett of Toronto

used in an effort to recruit non-Germans into the SS

Instituted on 2 August 1732

the obverse medallion presents an FJ on a lightly pebbled field

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Friedrich Linden Auction measuring 45 mm (w) x(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 gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge soldered over a rectangular frame and vertical pinback