Germany, Imperial. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge Commemorative Cigarette Case Newly Listed an alternative material was needed

an alternative material was needed for the manufacture of cap badges

20th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Motherhood Medal 1944-1964

42 mm x 92

Instituted 19 July 1913 by Wilhelm II of Württemberg

The blade is plain with the exception of a maker’s mark near the reverse ricasso reading “E

Germany, Imperial. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge Commemorative Cigarette Case Newly Listed an alternative material was needed(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen Zigarettenetui). A well preserved Prussian Pilots Badge commemorative cigarette case, constructed of a two piece nickel silver shell, the obverse featuring a raised depiction of the award, consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a German State Crown, around a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the interior featuring two gold bullion wire