Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, By Förster & Barth United Republic of Berlin S W"

Berlin S W"

Struck by the US Mint

featuring a five armed white Maltese Cross with ball finials

but by early 1943 it had been passed for disposal to a ‘well-known charity organisation’

the cover in a red papered cloth

Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, By Förster & Barth United Republic of Berlin S W"(Heeres Flak Abzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Frster & Barth,