Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge Auction centre seconds and blued steel

centre seconds and blued steel non-luminous hands

measuring 37 mm (w) x 51

An example of an absolutely mint and unissued early quality manufacture third Reich period Kriegsmarine submarine badge “U-Boot Kriegsabzeichen”

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

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

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge Auction centre seconds and blued steel(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