Germany, Luftwaffe. An Observer’s Badge, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac surrounded by a broad ring

surrounded by a broad ring of red enamels

measuring 60 cm (w) x 80 cm (h)

SCHMATZ & CO

I was at that time commanding Company "E"

circumscribed by Latin script - maker marked “Kautsch"

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Observer’s Badge, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac surrounded by a broad ring(Beobachterabzeichen mit Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, 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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked W. DEUMER, LDENSCHEID, measuring 53. 30 mm (w) x 52. 42 mm (h),