Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Late-War Issue, by Brüder Schneider Auction Archive Ilse Preuss

Ilse Preuss

situated above the engraved and personalized signatures of members of the Staff of District West

as a Second Lieutenant on January 8

then was admitted as a pensioner to Trinity College

’s arrival in Nuremberg for the Reichsparteitag

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Late-War Issue, by Brüder Schneider Auction Archive Ilse Preuss(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, 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 eagle in position, with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating from a circular base, maker marked with the micro version of the logo of Brder