Bidspirit auction | Lufthansa Junior Crew Wings Badge

Lufthansa Junior Crew Wings Badge - A winged badge in the form of stylized aircraft crew wings, with a central roundel enameled in blue reading ”LUFTHANSA JUNIOR” around the airline's crane logo. The wings are cast in a gold-toned metal with raised bar detailing. Lufthansa, founded in 1926, adopted the flying crane (Kranich) emblem designed by Otto Firle as its corporate symbol, one of the longest-continuously-used airline logos in the world. ”Junior” crew wings of this type were typically issued to young passengers as a promotional novelty, encouraging goodwill and brand loyalty by symbolically inducting children into the airline's cabin or flight crew community, a common airline marketing practice throughout the postwar commercial aviation era. Such badges were distributed by cabin crew during flights rather than awarded for service, and survive today mainly as airline collectibles rather than insignia of rank or qualification.