Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Auction A Bronze Grade Close Combat

A Bronze Grade Close Combat Badge by Friedrich Linden - In zinc

the lower portion of the image overlaid by Schreiber’s handwritten signature in blue ink

but they must have been small

the reverse with an inscription of “BĂRBĂTIE SI CREDINTĂ” (“MANHOOD AND FAITH”)

directly below is a pink embroidered soutache

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Auction A Bronze Grade Close Combat(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). 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, topped by an inscription of KREISSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire