Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, By Wilhelm Hobacher GTRexclude Footnote: This infantry assault badge

Footnote: This infantry assault badge stems from the personal collection of predominant historian Thomas Durante

the obverse is embossed in golden with the crowned monogram

and bearing a silver-grey machine-embroidered insignia

pierced through the centre by crossed swords

red wool highlight patch in the voided area

Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, By Wilhelm Hobacher GTRexclude Footnote: This infantry assault badge(Heeres Flakabzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national 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 crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Wilhelm Hobacher, Vienna,