Germany, Luftwaffe. An Observer’s Badge, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer GTRexclude 50 heavy machine gun and

50 heavy machine gun and the other mounting a

Footnote: Wing designs with the shield fronted by the letters "US" were produced by various makers based on the Regulations of August 1917

stamped oval shaped blackened tombac

a superb napoleonic era decoration referred to as a later Bacqueville manufacture

Accompanied by fifteen Ribbon Bars (ten with four ribbons

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Observer’s Badge, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer GTRexclude 50 heavy machine gun and(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),