Austria, Ii Republic. A Pilot’s Badge, Rothe Manufacture C.1970 Buy Now paint chipping and wear evident

paint chipping and wear evident on the black painted body from very active use

He sailed from Quebec City aboard the Empress of Ireland on June 2

surface oxidation evident on both sides

the reverse bears a number of illegible hand-etched inscriptions

and the place Bremen

Austria, Ii Republic. A Pilot’s Badge, Rothe Manufacture C.1970 Buy Now paint chipping and wear evident(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a green enameled oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by an enameled monogram of Emperor Franz Joseph, topped by a royal crown, overlaid by an Austrian style imperial eagle in mid flight, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a raised barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a rounded