Germany, Third Reich. A Luftwaffe Ground Assault Badge, by “G.H. Osang, Dresden” Newly Listed affixed to a card stock

affixed to a card stock backer pasted with Scheuermann’s original award document

Note: during this period and until "discovery" of white gold in early Twentieth Century as a rule diamonds were set in silver

retaining much of its original crossgrain

Constructed of a dark grey wool backer bearing a machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika

a Winterhilfswerk badge

Germany, Third Reich. A Luftwaffe Ground Assault Badge, by “G.H. Osang, Dresden” Newly Listed affixed to a card stock(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Instituted March 31st, 1942. Constructed of silvered and patinated zinc, the obverse consisting of an oval oak wreath, joined together at the base by a ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaying a stylized cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, with magnetic vertical pinback and a flat wire catch, marked G. H. Osang, Dresden on the reverse, measuring 42.