Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Officer-Grade Cloth Version Auction surrounded by a blue enamel

surrounded by a blue enamel ring inscribed VIRTUTI ET MERITO

A First War French M15 Adrian Steel Helmet - (Artillery and Tank Corps) French-made

measuring 119 mm x 45 mm

It was absorbed into the new 2nd Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade as C Battery

marked “6” and “Ges

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Officer-Grade Cloth Version Auction surrounded by a blue enamel(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen fr Offiziere, Stoffausfhrung). Constructed of dark grey wool, the obverse bearing a hand embroidered silver aluminum wire oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, unmarked, measuring 65 mm (w) x 55 mm (h), demonstrating extensive mothing and material fatigue, in uniform removed and very fine condition.