Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery Badge, Wartime Example with Postwar Finish, by Rudolf Souval Republic of A 1936 HJ Sports Festival

A 1936 HJ Sports Festival badge

demonstrating loss of gilt finish and the missing the ribbon’s sword clasp

Captain (May 15

the son of Peter Hale and Mary Hale

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery Badge, Wartime Example with Postwar Finish, by Rudolf Souval Republic of A 1936 HJ Sports Festival(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). Constructed of gilded and toned 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 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 rounded catch emanating from a circular