✬LUX✬ WWII US COLONEL & CAPTAIN INSIGNIA “WAR 🦅 EAGLES” LUXENBERG STERLING #2 for Sale

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✬LUX✬ WWII US COLONEL & CAPTAIN INSIGNIA “WAR 🦅 EAGLES” LUXENBERG STERLING #2 For Sale

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✬LUX✬ WWII US COLONEL & CAPTAIN INSIGNIA “WAR 🦅 EAGLES” LUXENBERG STERLING #2:
$299.99

Thank you for taking a look at my sales. Let me know if there are any World War One or World War Two medals you are looking for, or if you need an Original replacement set for lost family heirlooms, please contact me and I will list them on for you! Make sure to read all of the information I have provided, I do my absolute best to identify and describe the item your offerding on. The photos are of the actual item your offerding on, consider them part of the description as well!

Morry Luxenberg was the premier Insignia manufacturer that officers wanted on their uniforms. Early in WWII Morry would send Flag Officers free Insignia, and by the end of the war Luxenberg Insignia was highly sought after. Army Generals Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall, Jonathan M. Wainwright, George S. Patton Jr. and Leslie J. McNair were all Luxenberg customers.

--ORIGINAL WORLD WAR II UNITED STATES ARMY/MARINE CORPS COLONEL - NAVY CAPTAIN SHOULDER INSIGNIA, 1-9/16 INCH SIZE, VAULTED PIN-BACK. (12 GRAMS SILVER)

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INFORMATION:

Known as "War Eagle." The eagles on this insignia face in opposite directions and they each hold arrows in their talons. The pins produced during wartime had the heads of the eagles and arrows face the same way, to signify war, hence the name "War Eagle."

The insignia for a colonel is a silver eagle which is a stylized representation of the eagle dominating the Great Seal of the United States (which is the coat of arms of the United States). As on the Great Seal, the eagle has a U.S. shield superimposed on its chest and is holding an olive branch and bundle of arrows in its talons. However, in simplification of the Great Seal image, the insignia lacks the scroll in the eagle's mouth and the rosette above its head. On the Great Seal, the olive branch is always clutched in the eagle's right-side talons, while the bundle of arrows is always clutched in the left-side talons. The head of the eagle faces towards the olive branch, rather than the arrows, advocating peace rather than war. As a result, the head of the eagle always faces towards the viewer's left. Some colonel eagles from the 1920s to the 1950s faced the arrows, though this is no longer done. The full-sized colonel eagle is exactly two inches in diameter from the tips of each wing.

All of the Medals, Badges, and Insignia in my store are authentic to the time period listed, "I DO NOT" sell current issue items or reproductions "AS" Genuine items, that is a far to common problem on .

As the buyer you are making a investment on an Authentic period Item that will accumulate value whether you display it or give as a gift. I guarantee your satisfaction or I will refund your money and pay return shipping! Please let me know if there's anything else I can do for you!

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