with a blue background and white circular border
It was a single shot percussion lock breech loader that could be fired eight to ten times per minute (three times the rate of the Springfield rifle)
60 mm (w) x 70
being Marie Erbach-Schönberg (1914)
Constructed of off-white paper paper stock with black and gilt ink
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Type 8, by F.W. Assmann & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic with a blue background and(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of tombak and nickel silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the eagle in position, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of F. W. Assmann & Shne, Ldenscheid, measuring 65. 12