Tobias, that's a very appealing badge. I hope it's a good one, it will look great in your Air War collection
Regards, Al
Attached are two scans from the book Suomen Kunniamerkit by Jani Tiainen concerning this badge. I've also read the story on finnish militaria messageboards. Basically a finnish dealer bought the remaining stock of badge parts from the manufacturers storage and assembled complete badges. I think the one you are bidding on is one of these unissued, assembled badges, as the center hasn't been correctly riveted, but is rather hanging on by the bent pins. You can see the same thing comparing the rivets on the picture of the genuine issued badge, versus the copy in the book.
EDIT: Okay, cannot figure out how to the pictures uploaded in decent quality, here they should be in readable format:
https://imgur.com/a/C9jKQjr
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