Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Pilot’s Badge By Friedrich Linden Auction Archive the blade rating better than

the blade rating better than very fine

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in turn bearing a machine-embroidered multi-piece black rayon mobile swastika

He became a commissioned officer in the Louisiana National Guard in January 1914 in the historic "Washington Artillery"

within a stylized wreath of laurel leaves

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Pilot’s Badge By Friedrich Linden Auction Archive the blade rating better than(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse presenting with a swooping Luftwaffe style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, within an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, with two rivets holding the eagle in place visible, unmarked but bearing the physical characteristics of manufacture by Friedrich Linden, Ldenscheid, measuring 62. 33