Austria-Hungary, Imperial. A First War Austro-Hungarian Pilot Badge, c.1917 United Republic of measuring 16 mm in diameter

measuring 16 mm in diameter

single bent ray at 1 o'clock

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Republican Fascist Party/Black Brigades/Republican Police (Partito Fascista Repubblicano/Brigate Nere/Polizia Repubblicana)

Cast bronze

Austria-Hungary, Imperial. A First War Austro-Hungarian Pilot Badge, c.1917 United Republic of measuring 16 mm in diameter(Flugzeugfhrer und Beobachterabzeichen). A textbook Pilot badge, of two piece construction, consisting of a patinated silver eagle clutching gilt lightning bolts, fastened onto a bronze gilt open ended oval shaped and white enamelled laurel wreath via two rivets visible on the reverse, towards the top of the badge is a red and white enamelled shield featuring the black enamelled cipher of Karl I, while the bottom of the wreath is decorated with the