Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 certificate_of_authenticity to commanders

to commanders

10mm (h- inclusive of integral suspension bar)

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

push clasp

9th Mounted Rifle Battalion Cap Badge (in pickled copper

Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 certificate_of_authenticity to commanders(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,