Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, by Carl Poellath, c. 1919 Auction Archive measuring 35 mm (w) x

measuring 35 mm (w) x 39

indentation to reverse centrepiece medallion

circumscribed by the inscription “ Zur Ehre Des Vaterlandes

Exeter city mark

George V (106357 A/SGT

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, by Carl Poellath, c. 1919 Auction Archive measuring 35 mm (w) x(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Bavarian royal crown, surrounding a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round catch, maker marked CARL POELLATH, SCHROBENHAUSEN, above a mark of SILBER, measuring 45. 63 mm (w) x 74. 21 mm (h),