A pair of ribbon boutonnieres for First World War combatants
all closing with scalloped horizontal flaps with reinforced buttonholes meeting pebbled zink buttons
The MBE & MSM to Captain Sydney Webb
the obverse centerpiece features the words RELINQUO VOS LIBEROS AB UTROQUO HOMINE on a blue-enameled field
he was officially "presumed dead" as of June 27
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, by E. Ferdinand Wiedmann GTRexclude A pair of ribbon boutonnieres(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered 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, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular plate, unmarked but