Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Fallschirmjäger Badge, Officer’s Bullion Cloth Version, with Death Notice

 (Fallschirmschützenabzeichen - Stoffausführung für Offiziere). Constructed of blue-grey wool, the obverse bearing a hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire laurel and oak leaf wreath overlaid by a diving gold bullion wire Luftwaffe eagle clutching a silver aluminum wire mobile swastika, the reverse featuring a black cotton/rayon twill liner, unmarked, measuring 54 mm (w) x 58 mm (h), an extremely rare period Officer’s version, in near extremely fine condition; accompanied by death notice to Parteigenosse (Party Member) Karl Scheließnig, an Oberleutnant der Reserve and recipient of the 1939 Iron Cross in both II and I Classes, Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Wound Badge, Fallschirmjäger Badge, and other decorations, a veteran of the campaigns in Poland, Norway, and Finland, who was killed in action on 10 February 1945 at the age of 28, measuring 14.5 cm (w) x 20.5 cm (h).