Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Cloth Version For Enlisted Personnel And Ncos consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Tony Kingsmill

Tony Kingsmill

songs and poems

and pinned with a gilded bronze NSDAP-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed swastika

organized themselves under the advocacy of a holy patron and took the internal form of a confraternity

1928 in Kent

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Cloth Version For Enlisted Personnel And Ncos consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Tony Kingsmill(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen, Stoffausfhrung). Constructed of padded dark grey wool, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered silver grey oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse retaining a partial blackened liner, unmarked, measuring 72 mm (w) x 65 mm (h), some soiling is visible to the obverse thread possibly consistent with an adhesive or tape remnants, in very fine condition.