Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Narrow Hinge Variant, by Gustav Brehmer Auction Archive complete with plate

complete with plate

Private First Class Butter was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and the Army Good Conduct Medal

with mint period original ribbon

demonstrating some loss of finish to the core

constructed of machine embroidered dark green and light grey threading

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Narrow Hinge Variant, by Gustav Brehmer Auction Archive complete with plate(Flakkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Instituted January 10th, 1941. Constructed of silvered tombac, the obverse consisting of an oval oak wreath joined together at the base by a ribbon and topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, all overlaid by a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a raised narrow barrel hinge signature to manufacture by Gustav Brehmer, vertical round