Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Flak Badge, Hollow Version, by Wilhelm Hobacher Buy Now It replaced the Army Nursing

It replaced the Army Nursing Service

ammunition pouch and frog exhibit the expected contact and wear for an item of this age

The breast plate incorporates a series of 36 brass rivets around the perimeter

inscribed “DEN 18 OCTOBER 1861) (“THE 18th OF OCTOBER 1861”)

on a swivel loop for suspension from a hanger in silver gilt and enamels with a horizontal pinback

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Flak Badge, Hollow Version, by Wilhelm Hobacher Buy Now It replaced the Army Nursing(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered feinzink, 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, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse hollow and with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular plate,