Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Auction Clay County

Clay County

First War Inter-Allied Victory Medal (in bronze gilt

replacement ribbon wrapped around a brass triangular frame

in the Bay of Biscay area

November 24

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Auction Clay County(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Bavarian royal crown, around a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire cach, maker marked KARL POELLATH, SCHROBENHAUSEN (reflective of the early alternative spelling of the firm