Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, By Friedrich Linden Archive The dark brown leather sweatband

The dark brown leather sweatband shows soiling and wear from active use

Document is in excellent condition

and with full length of neck ribbon

measuring 306 mm x 286 mm overall

in silvered finezink

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, By Friedrich Linden Archive The dark brown leather sweatband(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered tombak, obverse presenting with a swooping Luftwaffe style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, within an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, 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, with etched inscription