Germany, Federal Republic. A Luftwaffe Short Range Day Fighter Combat Clasp, Gold Grade, 1957 Version

(Frontflugspange für Jadgverbände in Gold). Constructed of blackened and gilded bronze, the obverse consisting of a central blackened winged arrow, within a circular laurel leaf wreath, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the reverse with a barrel hinge and narrow banjo-style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 76.78 mm (w) x 25.55 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.