the sides painted green and bearing black ink instructions with a maker’s mark of “SO-LO WORKS
with Neptune bearing a trident
on top of exceptionally preserved scarlet doeskin background
80mm (h - inclusive of suspension)
1942 and signed in blue ink by the leader of “Kampfgruppe Scherer”
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Late-War Example, by Gustav Brehmer Province of China the sides painted green and(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 flat wire catch emanating from a circular plate, maker marked with the logo