Germany, Luftwaffe. A Mint Ground Assault Badge, By A.g.m.u.k. Auction Archive (La Cruz de Mérito Revolucionario)

(La Cruz de Mérito Revolucionario)

led to the War of the Spanish Succession

functionally push-button

see pages 46 and 47 of A Guide to Military Dress Daggers Volume III by Kurt Glemse

Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer War in South Africa and came through the war unscathed

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Mint Ground Assault Badge, By A.g.m.u.k. Auction Archive (La Cruz de Mérito Revolucionario)(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 three visible rivets securing the eagle in place, with a crimped barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire