Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, By Friedrich Linden consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac SS Panzer-Ausbildungs Kompanie)

SS Panzer-Ausbildungs Kompanie)

The decoration itself was instituted in 1951

measuring 150 mm (w) x 209 mm (h) and 129 mm (w) x 210 mm (h)

and an overall body length of 520 mm

hand inscribed ""BELGIQUE"" on the reverse cartouche

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, By Friedrich Linden consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac SS Panzer-Ausbildungs Kompanie)(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered and patinated zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by