Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, by Rudolf Karneth Buy Now court-mounted with swingbar pinback

court-mounted with swingbar pinback

with its cardboard mailing sleeve and addressed to his mother in Acton

157 in 1931

strong hinge and push button catch

the catch maker marked “65” for “Klein & Quenzer

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, by Rudolf Karneth Buy Now court-mounted with swingbar pinback(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered and patinated zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaying a cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, the reverse with three visible rivets securing the eagle in position, with a crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire