Description

The rarest of all the Railway Eagles, the front facing Adler. This would have been attached to the front of the lead locomotive. Very few of these were made and even fewer (2 known) survived the war. This one is shown on the cover of the R.J Bender book, "German Reichsbahn Railway Eagles by Wilhelm Saris". Aluminum based, curved locomotive bow eagle with a wingspan of 139.7 cm and a height of 63.8 cm. The wreath has a diameter of about 23.2 cm and the swastika is 14.0 cm. The reverse shows that the upper part of the wings is folded back, and the eagle’s head and neck are hollow.

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