Austria, Empire. An Emperial Austro-Hungarian Pilot’s Cap Badge Auction all attached to a boutonniere

all attached to a boutonniere with five ribbons - one being the ribbon for the Prussian Red Eagle Order

Power and members of his band

78 mm (w) x 48

some enamel loss in centrepiece

Austria, Empire. An Emperial Austro-Hungarian Pilot’s Cap Badge Auction all attached to a boutonniere(Piloten Mtzenabzeichen). Constructed of silvered tombac, the obverse consisting of an open ended oval oak wreath, with an eagle crouching at the top of the badge, and the bottom of the wreath decorated with the coat of arms of the Austro Hungarian Empire. Superimposed onto the badge is a single airplane propeller marked K. u. K. LUFTFAHRTENTRUPPE, the reverse plain, with a vertical needle pinback, marked Arkanzas on the reverse, measuring 29. 11 mm