Germany, Luftwaffe. A Bomber Flight Clasp, Silver Grade Auction Archive and a “3 Houndhead A”

and a “3 Houndhead A” denoting 800 silver purity

bottom arm marked W (for Wagner)

when he was buried by a shell explosion during the Second Battle of Ypres

the head in multiple rows of tisted wires

with a white and blue enamel surround

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Bomber Flight Clasp, Silver Grade Auction Archive and a “3 Houndhead A”(Frontflugspange fr Kampf und Sturzkampfflieger in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, overlaid by a downward pointing winged bomb, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the reverse with a visible central rivet securing the obverse bomb in place, with a block hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring