Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, Variation 3, by Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed Type 5 (variation 1)

Type 5 (variation 1)

in Newmarket

especially during Operation Citadel

Rumpel’s civilian career was that of a lawyer

Constructed of dark navy blue doeskin

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, Variation 3, by Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed Type 5 (variation 1)(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 and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating