Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge Auction "1 JANUARY 1960"

"1 JANUARY 1960"

(C:17)   Footnote: The McGill University Overseas Siege Artillery Draft was organized in Montreal

each with its own pinback and sharing a common bluish-gray wool backer

organized themselves under the advocacy of a holy patron and took the internal form of a confraternity

A group of five Third Reich period veterans organization stick pins

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge Auction "1 JANUARY 1960"(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered and patinated zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaying a stylized cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, the reverse with a single visible rivet securing the eagle in place, with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire