Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Type 8, by F.W. Assmann & Söhne Auction Red Cross Decoration

Red Cross Decoration

000 exhibits from the finest ethnographic

1916” and reverse with makers mark

1938 and named after Kapitänleutnant Berd Wegener

the three pins holding the steel ring frame inside are also intact

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Type 8, by F.W. Assmann & Söhne Auction Red Cross Decoration(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of tombak and nickel silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the eagle in position, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of F. W. Assmann & Shne, Ldenscheid, measuring 65. 12