Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, By Gebrüder Wegerhoff Auction 1918 in Vienna (the documents

1918 in Vienna (the documents disagree on the date)

long horizontal pinback

" He goes on to state that "the year 1887 was selected as a stopping point as it is here with the adoption of the Webley Mark I revolver that we are into modern smokeless pistols

late-war example of a Heer EM/NCO’s M43 field cap

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, By Gebrüder Wegerhoff Auction 1918 in Vienna (the documents(Flakkampfabzeichen 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, around a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place with an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened integral