Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Front Flying Clasp For Transport Pilots, Silver Grade Auction Archive on a Flaschengrün (bottle green)

on a Flaschengrün (bottle green) rayon backer

inscribed in Latin ""SIGNUM FIDEI"" (The Sign of Faith) on the centrepiece

maker marked for ROTHE

(Tapferkeitsauszeichnung für Angehörige der Ostvölker I

each with a plastic button

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Front Flying Clasp For Transport Pilots, Silver Grade Auction Archive on a Flaschengrün (bottle green)(Frontflugspange fr Transport und Luftlandflieger in Silber). Instituted on 30. 1. 1941 by Reichsmarshall Hermann Gring. (Issued 1941 1945). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse with a central laurel wreath with a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a swastika in the centre, with nine oak leaves on either side of the wreath, the reverse plain, with a barrel hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, measuring 76. 75 mm (w) x 25. 65