Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Hugo Schmidt

Hugo Schmidt

measures 135mm (w) x 200mm (l) x 45mm (d)

the top and bottom in white horsehair

1944 and signed in pencil by the commander of the 15th Panzer Grenadier Division

bearing central silvered double Sig runes flanked by initials “BL” for Begunstigende Ledenspeld

Austria, Empire. A Naval Pilot’s Badge, Type I, Museum Piece, by C.F. Rothe, c. 1965 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Hugo Schmidt(Marine Pilotenabzeichen). Type I (Museum Copy Originally Issued 1915). A vertically oriented oval silver badge, the obverse consisting of an oval ring with red white red striped enamels, the top decorated with a silver albatross with a black enameled badge at the bottom with a fouled anchor and royal crown, the reverse with a barrel hinge, broad and flat vertical pointed pinback and flat catch, marked C. F. Rothe on the obverse of the pinback,