Germany, Wehrmacht. A Balloon Observer’s Badge, Gold Grade, Post-1957 Reissue Auction Archive and Navy Good Conduct Medal

and Navy Good Conduct Medal (bronze gilt

and the centre with a raised tri-colour cockade (silver

signing his Attestation Paper as a Private (166611) with the 2nd Pioneer Battalion on September 27

measuring 85 mm in diamter

By the new year of 1945

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Balloon Observer’s Badge, Gold Grade, Post-1957 Reissue Auction Archive and Navy Good Conduct Medal(Ballonbeobachterabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse depicting an an observation balloon bearing a Balkan Cross, inside an oval oak leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 41. 83 mm (w) x 52. 70 mm (h), weighing 36. 2 grams, in near mint condition.