Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 Auction Archive measuring 75 mm x 260

measuring 75 mm x 260 mm

this rare cap is in an overall extremely fine condition

and the general staff all wore the same general types of swords

Mounted to a conjoined leather-framed suspension with both medals secured in place to a folded-over leather tab via a button

Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 Auction Archive measuring 75 mm x 260(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,