Germany, HJ. A 1938 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Auction presenting bent border and lost

presenting bent border and lost of gilt

one depicting a colour illustration Heer soldier carrying a wounded comrade

-GEWEHR”

A bar of identical construction emanates from the back of the plate and extends down to a boiled and blackened leather neck guard

ornate vertical pinback flanked by dual prongs

Germany, HJ. A 1938 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Auction presenting bent border and lost(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1938). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, surrounding a white enameled disc, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of KREISSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1938, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire