Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Hold but somehow he got wind

but somehow he got wind of it and I heard him say

Throughout the course of his service he was trained in updated practice and procedures until 1943

including a Kaiser Wilhelm II badge

The collar tabs are in silver bullion wire with orange wool bases

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Hold but somehow he got wind(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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, maker marked CARL POELLATH, SCHROBENHAUSEN, above an inscription of SILBER, measuring 44. 54 mm (w) x 73. 70 mm (h),