Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, By Förster & Barth United Republic of A Silver Member’s Badge

A Silver Member’s Badge

scattered chipping in the blue enamels on the Ustasha "U"

featuring a five armed white Maltese Cross with ball finials

for merit during the war

but by early 1943 it had been passed for disposal to a ‘well-known charity organisation’

Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, By Förster & Barth United Republic of A Silver Member’s Badge(Heeres Flak Abzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Frster & Barth,