Germany, Imperial. A Rare Pilot’s Badge, Type 3, by C.E. Juncker Hold Kjøbenhavn

Kjøbenhavn

Pair of shoulder straps

but displaying the typcial manufacturing characteristics of an early Type I Deschler piece

as The Lorne Rifles (Scottish)

Germany, Imperial. A Rare Pilot’s Badge, Type 3, by C.E. Juncker Hold Kjøbenhavn(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a German State Crown (indicating Prussian issue), surrounding a depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge emanating from a depression forming the body of the obverse crown, with a tapering narrow vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker