Italy, Parma. A Civil Merit Order Of St. Louis, Knight Iii Class, C.1900 Archive Kurhessischer NS-Volks-Flugtag in Kassel badge

Kurhessischer NS-Volks-Flugtag in Kassel badge (21

with a skull and spiked helmet below

period-altered with the ferrules removed

Let Us Never Be Ashamed" in Russian

edged with gilded twisted wire (for drivers distinguished performance)

Italy, Parma. A Civil Merit Order Of St. Louis, Knight Iii Class, C.1900 Archive Kurhessischer NS-Volks-Flugtag in Kassel badge(Ordine di San Ludovico del merito civile). Instituted in 1849. In silver gilt with red, white and blue enamels, marked with a capital "I" and a partial fleur de lis on the ring, measuring 44 mm (w) x 66. 8 mm (h) inclusive of its crown and laterally pierced ball suspension, chipping and crazing evident in the white enamels on the arms on both sides, the obverse and reverse centrepieces intact, on its original triangular ribbon with hook and eye, near