Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, by C.E. Juncker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 1/13 LOND:R

1/13 LOND:R

(Schirmmütze)

while foreigners were admitted either for past services to Greece

original ribbon suspended from a bronze pinback hanger with U

later document the owner’s transit through Romania to Soviet Ukraine

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, by C.E. Juncker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 1/13 LOND:R(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). A textbook example in silvered tombak, 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 position, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked C. E. JUNCKER, BERLIN S. W., measuring 65. 06 mm (w) x 52. 55