Germany, Imperial. A Rare Pilot’s Badge, Type 3, by C.E. Juncker Hold He took part in Riel

He took part in Riel

constructed of a polished and silvered bronze alloy

1809 and was at Portsmouth on February 20th

yellowish-orange celluolid grip features a series of ten parallel ridges

Niemann’s catalogue #3)

Germany, Imperial. A Rare Pilot’s Badge, Type 3, by C.E. Juncker Hold He took part in Riel(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a German State Crown (indicating Prussian issue), surrounding a depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge emanating from a depression forming the body of the obverse crown, with a tapering narrow vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker