Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Passchendaele - In bronze

Passchendaele - In bronze

In the Fall of 1916

enamel chipping on the shield

likely ground found

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Passchendaele - In bronze(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of silvered tombak 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 a silvered inscription of GAUSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a