Description
The Order was awarded to those individuals
junior officers of the 88th who rose rapidly from the rank of Lieutenant to acting regimental commander often lacked the experience writing detailed after action reports
as his Log Book is stamped "School of Aerial Gunnery
illustrating a fasces with a five-sided star immediately to the upper right
very faint hairline cracks to 8 o'clock arm
Germany, NSDAP. A 1936 Bavarian Ostmark Nsdap Regional Meeting Badge By Hutschenreuther Newly Listed The Order was awarded to(Bayerischen Ostmark Gautreffen Abzeichen). Constructed of porcelain with gilt, horizontal pinback, the obverse depicting a central NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, within a gilt border bearing an inscription of DER BAYERISCHEN OSTMARK 1936 GAUTREFFEN, the reverse with a makers mark of HUTSCHENREUTHER, SELB alongside the firms lion logo, measuring 43 mm (w) x 48 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.