Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 Auction Archive Very fine set of insignia

Very fine set of insignia

the Battle of Woosung (1842)

measuring 75 mm x 260 mm

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

and weighing at 22

Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 Auction Archive Very fine set of insignia(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,