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

with intact stitching

on period black silk ribbon

127 “Graf Zeppelin” on its 1st America journey

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