Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Breast Eagle, First Pattern
(Luftwaffe Brustadler für Offiziere). Constructed of a canvas backer retaining some dark grey wool, bearing a hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire droop-tail style Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse retaining a depot label, otherwise unmarked, measuring 90 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), with extensive oxidation and material loss of the silver wire and wool, respectively, in overall poor condition.

