A Bronze Grade Infantry Badge By Ferdinand Wiedmann Newly Listed the cap has a 50

the cap has a 50 mm wide light brown leather sweatband

1940 began the Air War against England

It is decorated with a well-detailed silvered aluminum Luftwaffe eagle insignia on the peak and an oak leaf wreath with stylized wings and cockade on the band

The three stars on the obverse are symbolic of the three wounds received by Brigadier Sampaio at the battle of Tuiuti in 1866

the clip secured in place to the body of the belt by two rivets

A Bronze Grade Infantry Badge By Ferdinand Wiedmann Newly Listed the cap has a 50Badge in bronzed zinc, solid construction, marked with stylized W on reverse bottom left (for Ferdinand Wiedmann, Frankfurt), bronze finish faded, in worn condition.