Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Narrow Hinge Variant, by Gustav Brehmer Auction Archive A remarkable ball-tipped enameled green

A remarkable ball-tipped enameled green seven-armed star in silver gilt

The whistles were used to coordinate movements across companies

demonstrating some loss of finish to the core

with mint period original ribbon

most of these buckles present a core of Angolia’s book “Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich”

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Narrow Hinge Variant, by Gustav Brehmer Auction Archive A remarkable ball-tipped enameled green(Flakkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Instituted January 10th, 1941. Constructed of silvered tombac, the obverse consisting of an oval oak wreath joined together at the base by a ribbon and topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, all overlaid by a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a raised narrow barrel hinge signature to manufacture by Gustav Brehmer, vertical round