Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short Range Day Fighter Front Flying Clasp, Gold Grade United Republic of in a swallowtail design

in a swallowtail design

A First War Pair to the 4th Infantry Battalion

with some contact to enamels

with the paper backing intact

12 pages printed in black ink

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short Range Day Fighter Front Flying Clasp, Gold Grade United Republic of in a swallowtail design(Frontflugspange fr Jagdverbnde in Gold). Constructed of gilded feinzink, the obverse consisting of a central circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, overlaid by a central upward pointing winged arrow, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, with a central visible rivet securing the obverse arrow in place, unmarked, measuring