Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 Auction The American invasion

The American invasion

with light crazing on both the front visor and neck guard

1903 in the district of Eger in the Sudetenland (modern day Cheb

He was not eligible for the 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal

Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 Auction The American invasion(Marine Pilotenabzeichen). Type I (Museum Copy Originally Issued 1915). A vertically oriented oval silver badge, the obverse consisting of an oval ring with red white red striped enamels, the top decorated with a silver albatross with a black enameled badge at the bottom with a fouled anchor and royal crown, the reverse with a barrel hinge, broad and flat vertical pointed pinback and flat catch, marked C. F. Rothe on the obverse of the pinback,