Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Lot of Officer-Grade Badges, with Recipient Portrait and Death Notice, Eastern Front KIA

(Wehrmacht Abzeichen - Stoffausführung für Offiziere mit Porträt und Sterbebild). A rare lot of owner-attributed items, including:

1. A Heer Gebirgsjäger sleeve insignia, constructed of dark green wool, the obverse bearing a silver aluminum wire edelweiss with a golden-yellow celleon wire stamen, unmarked, measuring 50 mm (w) x 60 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.

2. A Heer Officer’s breast eagle, constructed of dark green wool, the obverse overlaid by a layer of dark green rayon, in turn bearing a machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, unmarked, measuring 100 mm (w) x 40 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.

3. A Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger Badge, cloth version in bullion for Officers, 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 50 mm (w) x 60 mm (h), an extremely rare period Officer’s version, in near extremely fine condition.

4. A large studio portrait depicting the recipient in the uniform of an Oberleutnant and seated alongside his wife, wearing the 1939 Iron Cross in both II and I Classes, Infantry Assault Badge in Silver, Wound Badge in Silver, Fallschirmjäger Badge, and Narvik Shield, the reverse bearing a lengthy handwritten dedication to a descendant dated July 1970, measuring 27.5 cm (w) x 29 cm (h), a superb razor-sharp period image, in extremely fine condition.

5. A 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), with a wedding invitation, named to Scheließnig and his bride Ingeborg Pachleitner, dated February 1943, measuring 14.5 cm (w) x 9 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.