Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Friedrich Orth United Republic of a Luftwaffe Flying Personnel Qualification

a Luftwaffe Flying Personnel Qualification Arm Badge (light gray embroidered insignia on bluish-gray wool

1886 and served in the ranks for fourteen years and thirty-four days

a small studio portrait of a uniformed Obergefreiter wearing a War Merit Cross II Class ribbon

from which he was dismissed in late December 1919

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Friedrich Orth United Republic of a Luftwaffe Flying Personnel Qualification(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an oval baseplate, maker marked with LDO code L 14 for Friedrich Orth, Vienna, measuring