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Home Service) and recommended that he be discharged "as unfit for further Military Service
The 25 Year Long Service Cross certificate is named to Major (later General) Konstantin Heinrich Robert Karl Schmidt von Knobelsdorf (1860-1936)
Officer’s Badge in Gold and enamels
Germany, Luftwaffe. An Observer’s Badge, Early Example, by Paul Meybauer certificate_of_authenticity Spalding & Bros(Beobachterabzeichen). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the eagle in position, with a wide barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked P. MEYBAUER, BERLIN, measuring 52. 20 mm (w) x 52. 60 mm (h), weighing 44.