Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, By Gebrüder Schneider Newly Listed (MNE1 N K WATSON P039622F

(MNE1 N K WATSON P039622F RM)

suspended from a loop featuring the “65” Jubilee number

Mounted as originally worn on gilt chain

a hole on the front where a badge once resided that has since been lost to time

That summer

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, By Gebrüder Schneider Newly Listed (MNE1 N K WATSON P039622F(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