Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge, With Recipient Photograph, C. 1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac tips of bottom cross arm

tips of bottom cross arm slightly bent

Footnote: This S

one named to Hildegard “Hilde” Schneider

Accompanied by a copy of the listing from the London Gazette 5592 of June 3

A Miniature Order of the Lion and Sun - Finely crafted in silver and eamels

Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge, With Recipient Photograph, C. 1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac tips of bottom cross arm(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a German State Crown, around a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 55 mm (w) x 71. 72 mm (h), weighing 20. 6 grams, with minor loss of finish evident,