Germany, Luftwaffe. A Mixed Lot of Music and Drum Corps Rank Insignia

(Luftwaffe Insignien für Mannschaften der Musikkorps). A mixed lot of Luftwaffe Music and Drum Corps rank insignia, including:

1. A set of Flight Personnel Musikmeiter collar tabs, each constructed of golden-yellow wool with a buckram core, trimmed with twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping, and bearing a silver aluminum wire lyre situated above a gull and oak leaf wreath of identical construction, both unmarked and measuring 45 mm (w) x 60 mm (l), demonstrating minor material fatigue to the wool, in unissued and extremely fine condition.

2. A mis-matched set of Flight Personnel NCO shoulder boards, each constructed of a golden-yellow base with a rigid card stock core, topped by a layer of red rayon piping, and pinned with gilded numerals “18”, a cypher, and one with a gilded pip, both unmarked, one measuring 40 mm (w) x 115 mm (l) and one measuring 42 mm (w) x 105 mm (l), demonstrating minor material fatigue, in uniform-removed and better than very fine condition.