A Fine Early Quality Manufacture Luftwaffe Pilot’s Badge By C. E. Juncker Of Berlin Auction Archive with hardly any bronze finish

with hardly any bronze finish remaining

Order of the Zähringen Lion

In stamped out badge

Silver-plated brass hilt fittings show moderate wear to finish on pommel & crossguard

A Fine Early Quality Manufacture Luftwaffe Pilot’s Badge By C. E. Juncker Of Berlin Auction Archive with hardly any bronze finishA fine early quality textbook example of a Pilotenabzeichen; two piece construction; silvered tombac oval wreath with laurel wreaths towards the left side and oak leaves towards the right side, separated by three small ribbon like loops on the bottom, with a large patinated eagle with spread out wings superimposed on the badge, clutching a swastika in its talons; two rivets on the reverse; vertical needle style pinback with a barrel hinge and a round