Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, With Documents, To Gefreiter Werner Bartsch

(Flugzeugführerabzeichen mit Papier). A lot of items to Gefreiter Werner Bartsch, including:

1. A Pilot’s Badge, constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker with the logo of Brüder Schneider, Vienna, measuring 65.47 mm (w) x 53.23 mm (h), weighing 33.5 grams, with only minor and age-appropriate bubbling visible to the base metal, a well-preserved zink example in extremely fine condition.

2. A Düsseldorf Chamber of Trades license issued to Werner Bartsch as a mechanic, date 24 May 1934 and confirming that he qualified as an automotive mechanic with Daimler-Benz from 1929 until 1933, set within a card stock binding, measuring 10 cm (w) x 16 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.

3. A large Werneuchen Fighter Pilot School certificate, constructed of card stock with finely-detailed, multi-coloured ink imagery, named to Bartsch as a Gefreiter and dated 27 October 1938, measuring 30 cm (w) x 40 cm (h), demonstrating minor material fatigue and discolouration, in near extremely fine condition.