Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Pilot’s Badge, Stick Pin Miniature Newly Listed he reported at West Point

he reported at West Point as a cadet in the United States Military Academy from which he graduated on 13 June 1873

consisting of a mahogany wood propeller and its hub base from a de Havilland Gipsy Moth aircraft

with nearly all of its original silver finish worn off due to age and wear

Oakley was recalled upon the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 but was immediately discharged as unfit

2mm (h – inclusive of suspension and integral loop)

Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Pilot’s Badge, Stick Pin Miniature Newly Listed he reported at West Point(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen Anstecknadel). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a German State Crown, around a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, unmarked, measuring 12 mm (w) x 20 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.