Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, by Rudolf Karneth Buy Now with its cardboard mailing sleeve

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

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

Eleventh March Issue (Kruis voor de Vierdaagse): in silver with blue enamels

because he was awarded a Hindenburg Cross on January 13

strong hinge and push button catch

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, by Rudolf Karneth Buy Now with its cardboard mailing sleeve(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