Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Karl Wurster Archive In bronze-gilt

In bronze-gilt

measuring 61 mm x 42 mm

see pages 46 and 47 of A Guide to Military Dress Daggers Volume III by Kurt Glemse

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Karl Wurster Archive In bronze-gilt(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but