An Iron Cross 1939 First Class Screwback Version By Alois Rettenmaier Archive A Kriegsmarine Coastal Artillery Badge

A Kriegsmarine Coastal Artillery Badge -  in gilded/silvered feinzink

the top of which features a brass maker's plate in the form of a shield surmounted by a crown and inscribed "HOBSON & SONS MILITARY OUTFITTERS" with the company's London address

this style with this reverse having the safety pin-back

practicing as a surgeon

with two strands stitched to the reverse

An Iron Cross 1939 First Class Screwback Version By Alois Rettenmaier Archive A Kriegsmarine Coastal Artillery BadgeAn Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse; a cross pattee of multi piece construction, with a blackened iron core (magnetic), within a ribbed border; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse plain, with a threaded round nut soldered to the centre of the cross, and a removable backing plate with a threaded stud for uniform attachment; maker marked L59 for Alois