Germany, Nsfk. A Rare Glider Badge GTRexclude (SS-Waffen Kragenspiegel)

(SS-Waffen Kragenspiegel)

Knight (three-piece construction

original frayed black and white ribbon with pinback

with crossed swords attached to the ribbon

maker marked "R & S

Germany, Nsfk. A Rare Glider Badge GTRexclude (SS-Waffen Kragenspiegel)(NSFK Segelfliegerabzeichen). Instituted 26 January 1942 by Friedrich Christiansen. (1942 1945). Constructed of silvered iron with enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps (National Socialist Flyers Corps NSFK) insignia, overlaid by three white enameled gulls, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the