Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Auction A black-and-white photograph on cardstock

A black-and-white photograph on cardstock of Herbert Hoover

surrounded white-enamelled border with the inscription “Premio a la Constancia Militar” (Award for Military Constancy)

with the Canadian Centennial 1867-1967 insignia below

basic training

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Auction A black-and-white photograph on cardstock(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf). 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, in turn defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, the eagle circumscribed by an inscription of GAUSIEGER (REGIONAL VICTOR) and a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical