Germany, Federal Republic. An Observer Badge, Early 1957 Version Hold Pearkes requested a change of

Pearkes requested a change of command

This is a matching set of very well preserved and extremely rare Waffen-SS Oberscharführer rank collar tabs

Footnote: This decoration was instituted by Franz Joseph I to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Convention

He spent a brief period hospitalized while in England in early 1919

a small piece torn from the upper right corner on the inside front cover endpaper

Germany, Federal Republic. An Observer Badge, Early 1957 Version Hold Pearkes requested a change of(Beobachterabzeichen Ausfhrung 1957). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the eagle in position, with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, stamped with a mark of A (possibly indicative of a connection to F. W. Assmann & Shne, Ldenscheid),