Germany, HJ. A 1938 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Auction A bar of identical construction

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

presenting bent border and lost of gilt

the other end of the bracket with a shorter strap folded over and held in place by a rivet

promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on July 1

and small flaw at the bottom arm (reverse bottom right tip)

Germany, HJ. A 1938 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Auction A bar of identical construction(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