Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge Auction A group of five Third

A group of five Third Reich period veterans organization stick pins

organized themselves under the advocacy of a holy patron and took the internal form of a confraternity

Letter from the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood (British coat-of-arms at the upper left

each with its own pinback and sharing a common bluish-gray wool backer

"1 JANUARY 1960"

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge Auction A group of five Third(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 stylized cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, the reverse with a single visible rivet securing the eagle in place, with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire