Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, Second Pattern by Friedrich Linden Auction Archive with slight imperfections

with slight imperfections

He signed his Attestation Paper as a Private with the 95th Infantry Battalion

and inscribed “Meinem Führer” above

topped by a banner bearing raised initials “NSKK” on a blackened background

Constructed of red wool twill

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, Second Pattern by Friedrich Linden Auction Archive with slight imperfections(Nahkampfspange in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, situated above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, situated above a toned non magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four rays and four oak leaves with two acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an oval plate,