Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, By Gebrüder Wegerhoff Auction Archive featuring very crisp detail

featuring very crisp detail

hanger with vertical pinback

Type III (silvered bronze

interlaced with green threading

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, By Gebrüder Wegerhoff Auction Archive featuring very crisp detail(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Instituted on August 12, 1935. (Issued 1936 1945). An early period badge constructed of silvered and patinated nickel silver, consisting of an oak and laurel wreath, bearing a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a hand filed mobile swastika, the reverse plain with a vertical pinback, and a barrel hinge unique to this maker, and a flat wire catch, marked GWL for Gebrder Wegerhoff, Ldenscheid on the reverse, measuring 63. 2 mm (w) x 52.