Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, by Steinhauer & Lück Hold Red wool with reinforced buttonholes

Red wool with reinforced buttonholes at either end

the head in multiple rows of innate twisted wires

still with its original paper wrap

City of New Haven

Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, by Steinhauer & Lück Hold Red wool with reinforced buttonholes(Heeres Flak Abzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, 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 flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid,