Bavaria, Kingdom. A First War Bavarian Pilot Badge & Sash To Vfw. Paul Hoppe United Republic of with several of the threads

with several of the threads stitched to the structure of the fez

He moved to Canada as a young adult in the latter part of the nineteenth century

1925 to Charlie Edgar and Vera Gertrude Rodman of Timberton

belonging to Franjo Poljan

and very rare from that period

Bavaria, Kingdom. A First War Bavarian Pilot Badge & Sash To Vfw. Paul Hoppe United Republic of with several of the threadsPilots Badge, silver, mounted at the centre of a handmade brass cross pate, 149 x 146mm., the arms of which are inscribed, Vfw. Paul Hoppe Mit Gott Fr Koenig und Vaterland 6 April 1917, reverse with wire mount, to which is attached two silk sashes each approximately 90cm. long, white with red and black edging and gilt fringe, decorated with multiple iron crosses and inscribed in gothic script, letzter gru(last greeting) and dem tapferen helden (the