EXRARE WW1 GERMAN 10 JAGDGESCHWADER,RICHTHOFEN FLYING CIRCUS, EAGLE WITH MALTESE

Description

This eagle would have set on a German officers desk ,or room of one of Richthofen ROYAL PRUSSIAN JADESCHWADER, , this having the 10 and the early Maltese insignia, below this hand cut eagle , is the early cross. The  JASTA10th had many as thirteen aces serving in its ranks. the ROYAL PRUSSIAN JAGDSTAFFEL 10 was a world War 1 ''hunting group'' fighter squadron of the LUFTSTRITKRAFTE,the air arm of the Imperial German Army, during WW1 . Just 10 in its brief existence , was credited with 118 enemy planes and 33 enemy observation balloons destroyed. In turn ,it would lose twenty killed in action, another killed in a flying accident, ten wounded action, and four held as prisoners of war. This war prize was bought from an estate in New York , which  had many units involved during the short period of WW1 for the American AEF. The last two pictures are of a German pilot from WW1 that had his name on his eagle ,in a bookend set , they are in no way part of what I'm am selling which is the eagle , but I am using them as an example that this bookend set came from NEW YORK ALSO ,and was in a pilots personal items.