Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, with Award Document, to Obergefreiter Jakob Rausch

(Flak-Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered tombak, 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, around a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 46.14 mm (W) x 66.82 mm (h), weighing 39.2 grams, in extremely fine condition; accompanied by its award document, constructed of off-white paper stock with black ink, named o “OBERGEFREITEN JAKOB RAUSCH” of gemischte Flak-Abteilung 153, issued at staff headquarters on 23 December 1943, certified by the handwritten signature of an unidentified Oberst and stand-in for the Commander of 13. Flak-Division, measuring 14.5 cm (w) x 21 cm (h), demonstrating a central folding crease, in near extremely fine condition.