Germany, NSFK. A Rare Glider Badge certificate_of_authenticity in bronzed lightly vaulted zink

in bronzed lightly vaulted zink

There is a green and white enamelled peony suspension wreath denoting II class

increasingly focusing on warplanes in the lead-up to World War II

an oak leaf wreath lays in the quadrants between the cross arms

all set on a 175 mm-long bar with a horizontal pinback and field-grey wool reverse liner

Germany, NSFK. A Rare Glider Badge certificate_of_authenticity in bronzed lightly vaulted zink(NSFK Segelfliegerabzeichen). Instituted 26 January 1942 by Friedrich Christiansen. (1942 1945). Constructed of silvered iron with enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps (National Socialist Flyers Corps NSFK) insignia, overlaid by three white enameled gulls, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch,