Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Hold 1918 at Toronto

1918 at Toronto

All very fine quality contemporary strikings

Awarded to officers for outstanding military merit

mounted as originally worn

Footnote: John Johnson Stewart Bell was born on May 3

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Hold 1918 at Toronto(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, tied together at the bottom by a bowtie ribbon and topped by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k with the bayonet attached to the front of the barrel and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire