Germany, Air Force. An Unissued Matching Pair of Luftwaffe Hauptmann Collar Tabs Province of China Kaiser Carl Truppen Cross

Kaiser Carl Truppen Cross

He is the patron saint of Zakynthos (sometimes called Zante in English)

Instituted 31 August 1913 by Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Altenburg

II Class Officer and III Class Knight

reverse inscribed “DEM VERDIENSTE 1914” (“FOR MERIT 1914”) within an oak wreath

Germany, Air Force. An Unissued Matching Pair of Luftwaffe Hauptmann Collar Tabs Province of China Kaiser Carl Truppen Cross(Luftwaffe Hauptmann Kragenspiegel). An exemplary pair of unissued Luftwaffe Hauptmann collar tabs, both tabs are identical and still attached via a joining thread, constructed of a buckram core, with a bright yellow wool upper, with three gulls and two oak wreath twigs on the obverse in high quality flat and rolled silver aluminum bullion embroidery, measuring 57 mm (w) x 41 mm (l), in mint and unissued condition.