Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, By Hermann Aurich consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac "Ordine Costantiniano Nemagnico di Santo

"Ordine Costantiniano Nemagnico di Santo Stefano""

loss of gilt in the Saltire Cross

the latter inverted

original vertical pinback

constructed of silvered bronze and blue enamels

Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, By Hermann Aurich consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac "Ordine Costantiniano Nemagnico di Santo(Heeres Flak Abzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with depressed and crimped hinge with a vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Hermann Aurich, Dresden, measuring 44. 73 mm (w) x 60.