Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Type A With Case, By G.h. Osang certificate_of_authenticity printed in black and red

printed in black and red ink on a cream-coloured thick paper stock

Footnote: The 27th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was comprised by men raised almost entirely in York County

An award certificate for a German Cross in Gold

and appears to be hand-stitched to the tunic

on a brownish-green wool base

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Type A With Case, By G.h. Osang certificate_of_authenticity printed in black and red(Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen mit Etui). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a gilded diving Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a soldered barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a soldered flat wire catch, maker marked G. H. OSANG, DRESDEN,