Bavaria, Kingdom. A Rare Pilot’s Badge, Type 4, by Carl Poellath consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac within a laurel wreath and

within a laurel wreath and topped by a 1914 Iron Cross

he was struck off strength on posting to the Saskatchewan Regimental Depot

the space in each quadrant offers a silver gilt ray with a pearl at the tip

A lot of ribbon bars and boutonnieres

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Rare Pilot’s Badge, Type 4, by Carl Poellath consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac within a laurel wreath and(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen Knigreich Bayern). Constructed of silvered brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Bavarian state crown, surrounding a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal pinback meeting a rounded catch, maker marked CARL POELLATH, SCHROBENHAUSEN (using the firms Type 4 design as examined