Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge Auction Archive hallmarked and number impressed "1848"

hallmarked and number impressed "1848" on the reverse

Of foreign continental manufacture

and a size mark of “57”

Acting Bombardier J

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Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge Auction Archive hallmarked and number impressed "1848"(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a German State Crown, around a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the revere with a barrel hinge and vertical piback meeting a flattened pinback, the pin marked with partially legible silver content number of either 800 or 900, measuring 43. 40 mm (w) x 70. 86 mm