Austria, Empire. An Emperial Austro-Hungarian Pilot’s Cap Badge certificate_of_authenticity unmarked but a textbook example

unmarked but a textbook example maker JFS

measuring 117 mm at the base x 387 mm in height

constructed of heavy pressed paper with a red faux leather (leatherette) exterior and a dark blue satin lined lid

CUMBERLAND) Naming is officially impressed in large black capitals

with intact stitching

Austria, Empire. An Emperial Austro-Hungarian Pilot’s Cap Badge certificate_of_authenticity unmarked but a textbook example(Piloten Mtzenabzeichen). Constructed of silvered tombac, the obverse consisting of an open ended oval oak wreath, with an eagle crouching at the top of the badge, and the bottom of the wreath decorated with the coat of arms of the Austro Hungarian Empire. Superimposed onto the badge is a single airplane propeller marked K. u. K. LUFTFAHRTENTRUPPE, the reverse plain, with a vertical needle pinback, marked Arkanzas on the reverse, measuring 29. 11 mm