Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Auction Archive Tsar Nicholas II version

Tsar Nicholas II version

Sold with a good amount of research including copied pay lists

interwoven silver/aluminum braid with buttoning loops to both the top and bottom ends

Palmer and Maude Palmer of Greenhurst

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Auction Archive Tsar Nicholas II version(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Of multi piece construction, composed of bronzed zink with a magnetic metal backing plate, the obverse with a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika and a bayonet and hand grenade in the centerpiece, with sun rays emanating from the centre of the left and right sides, and with four oak leaves and two acorns on each side, the reverse plain with a horizontal banjo style pinback with a barrel hinge and a round wire