Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, With Case, By Gebrüder Schneider Newly Listed Panzer Reconnaissance Division 19

Panzer Reconnaissance Division 19

original award documents

The badge also identified the wearer as being exempt from call-up to active service

Buckinghamshire on September 28

Instituted on 31 December 1850 by King Friedrich August II

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, With Case, By Gebrüder Schneider Newly Listed Panzer Reconnaissance Division 19(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen mit Etui). Constructed of nickel silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Gebrder Schneider, Vienna, measuring 65. 50 mm