Germany, Imperial. A Framed Ring Crafted Out of the Remains of Manfred von Richthofen’s Fokker Triplane 425/17 Auction Archive with brown cardboard backing

with brown cardboard backing

Baldes book “Aircrew Badges and Honor Prizes of the Flying Troops 1913-20”

topped by a gilt Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika

Martha Parton of Toronto

A second war sweetheart pennant depicting a Wehrmacht NCO

Germany, Imperial. A Framed Ring Crafted Out of the Remains of Manfred von Richthofen’s Fokker Triplane 425/17 Auction Archive with brown cardboard backing(Gedenkring angefertigt aus den berresten von Manfred von Richthofens Dreidecker). An aluminum ring with a raised propeller on the head, contained in a shadow box, constructed of black wood behind a pane of glass, with a note reading This ring is made from a piece of metal from the crashed Fokker Triplane 425 17 of Baron Manfred von Richthofen 80 victories, April 21, 1918. It was sent home by Gus Field to his sister. Gus Field was a member of No. 3