Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Gilded Ground Assault Badge By C.e. Juncker GTRexclude Connecticut Faithful Service Cross Ribbon

Connecticut Faithful Service Cross Ribbon Bar with Bronze Eagle Clasp

42mm x 42mm

gilt wear and bubbling on the reverse

ten 5-inch guns and six torpedo tubes

1887 in Rothiemay

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Gilded Ground Assault Badge By C.e. Juncker GTRexclude Connecticut Faithful Service Cross Ribbon(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). A rare and unusual example of a Luftwaffe Ground Assault Badge, constructed of gilded and blackened nickel silver (gilded highlights are burnished) and without any question gilding was done before the eagle was riveted on the base; the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath tied together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, on top of a storm