Germany, Luftwaffe. A Set Of Luftwaffe Stabsingenieur Collar Tabs Auction Archive The SS insignia is turned

The SS insignia is turned slightly to the left

the reverse inscribed “Dem Tiroler Landes Verteidiger 1848” (The Tirol Defenders)

Footnote: The Winterhilfswerk (WHW = Winter Help Work) was an annual drive by the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (the National Socialist People’s Welfare Organization) to help finance charitable work

and in the centre the Lion of England standing on a tablet inscribed “Firm”

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Germany, Luftwaffe. A Set Of Luftwaffe Stabsingenieur Collar Tabs Auction Archive The SS insignia is turned(Kragenspiegel fr Stabsingenieur der Luftwaffe). A matching set of Luftwaffe Stabsingenieur (Engineer Major equivalent) collar tabs, each constructed of rose pink wool with buckram cores, trimmed with twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping, and bearing a machine embroidered silver aluminum wire propeller within an oak leaf wreath of identical construction, both unmarked and measuring 40 mm (w) x 60 mm (l), both demonstrating material fatigue,