Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Late-War Example, by Friedrich Linden Newly Listed red leather wrapped leather

red leather wrapped leather

30 March 1935: Transferred to the 10th 100-Man Detachment in Bremen

sewn upon a red felt base

40 mm x 58

weighs  and is on its period hook and eye ribbon

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Late-War Example, by Friedrich Linden Newly Listed red leather wrapped leather(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the eagle in position, with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Friedrich Linden,