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

reverse with legged tri-wheel with blue enamel surround with motto Joseph Neapoles Siciliarum rex instituit

carton extremely fine

The document was issued in Berlin on October 27

on loop for suspension from its period original civilian-issue ribbon

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),