Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Breast Eagle, First Pattern Auction Archive 21 mm x 23

21 mm x 23

that his religion was Protestant and that his trade was that of Sheet Metal Worker

circumscribed with “GEN

A statement

stating the he had eight years' previous service with the Grenadier Guards (participating in the London Campaign (Egypt) in 1898 and in the Boer War (South Africa) in 1901-1902)

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Breast Eagle, First Pattern Auction Archive 21 mm x 23(Luftwaffe Brustadler fr Offiziere 1. Form). Constructed of dark blue grey wool, the obverse bearing a hand embroidered silver aluminum wire droptrail style Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse retaining an intact paper backer unmarked, measuring 85 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), demonstrating oxidation throughout the wire, an unusual variant in very fine condition.