Germany, Wehrmacht. A Heer Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Wilhelm Deumer - “Early” Hollow Zink Variant GTRexclude (Waffen-SS Kragenspiegel für Scharführer der

(Waffen-SS Kragenspiegel für Scharführer der Panzertruppe)

maker marked "DRAGO 43

each topped by a dark grey rayon tresse

with scattered mothing and soiling evident

Due to inter-wartime production troubles and lack of raw materials

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Heer Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Wilhelm Deumer - “Early” Hollow Zink Variant GTRexclude (Waffen-SS Kragenspiegel für Scharführer der(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze). Instituted December 20th, 1939. (Mid to Late War Issue). A textbook example by this maker. Constructed of bronzed zinc, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a