Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and wear of the added

and wear of the added collar

measures 135mm (w) x 200mm (l) x 45mm (d)

ISBN 0-919316-86-7

Hugo Schmidt

bearing central silvered double Sig runes flanked by initials “BL” for Begunstigende Ledenspeld

Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and wear of the added(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,