Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, by Carl Poellath, c. 1919 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 141st Field Artillery (Washington Artillery)

141st Field Artillery (Washington Artillery) serving through November 14

consisting of a pair of crossed swords

Hughes attended the 5th Army Musketry School beginning on October 21st

42 mm x 27 mm

Die-stamped insignia on the front panel of the magnetic silvered metal base

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, by Carl Poellath, c. 1919 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 141st Field Artillery (Washington Artillery)(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Bavarian royal crown, surrounding a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round catch, maker marked CARL POELLATH, SCHROBENHAUSEN, above a mark of SILBER, measuring 45. 63 mm (w) x 74. 21 mm (h),