Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge, With Recipient Photograph, C. 1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Miniature Order of the

A Miniature Order of the Lion and Sun - Finely crafted in silver and eamels

Footnote 1: Fritz Fischer was born on October 9

This dates the picture to the early 1940s

(Brosche für die Ehrenjungfrauen anlässlich der Krönung König Wilhelm I)

maker marked CEJ” on the reverse

Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge, With Recipient Photograph, C. 1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Miniature Order of the(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze, 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 reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 55 mm (w) x 71. 72 mm (h), weighing 20. 6 grams, with minor loss of finish evident,