Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short-Range Day Fighter Clasp, Gold Grade Hold GUSTAV SPITZER

GUSTAV SPITZER

1940 (SS Stammkompanie Norwegen was presumably headquartered in Oranienburg)

bearing four bands of interwoven silver aluminum wire piping and pinned with a gilded bronze Veterinary cypher

"ILMAPUOLUSTUS" (Air Force) clasp on its original ribbon)

the Royal Scots with a gilt centrepiece

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short-Range Day Fighter Clasp, Gold Grade Hold GUSTAV SPITZER(Frontflugspange fr Jger in Gold). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of a central circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, surrounding a central upward pointing winged arrow, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 75. 98 mm (w) x 25. 84 mm (h), weighing 19. 6 grams, in extremely fine