Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, By Gebrüder Schneider Auction issued on January 26

issued on January 26

The exterior waist also features an embroidered cotton tag stamped with maker’s mark “Georg R

his senior year at Loyola

5" in overall length

period newspaper clipping

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, By Gebrüder Schneider Auction issued on January 26(Fallschirmspringerabzeichen). Instituted on 5 November 1936 by Hermann Gring. (Issued 1936 1945). Consisting of an oval nickel silvered wreath, with laurel leaves on the left half of the wreath, and oak leaves on the right half of the wreath, with a central gilded tombak eagle clutching a mobile swastika in its talons, reverse marked with logo of maker Gebrder Schneider, Vienna, two rivets visible, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a