Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, by Wilhelm Hobacher United Republic of Sergeant Stripes

Sergeant Stripes

R Rounding and Sgt E

after the tolling of La Campana del Popolo (the people’s bell) in Palazzo Vecchio

consisting of a Cross Pattée with white enameled arms set within a Gold frame

on its mid 20th Century neck ribon

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, by Wilhelm Hobacher United Republic of Sergeant Stripes(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding 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 round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Wilhelm Hobacher, Vienna,