Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Newly Listed on a violet wool base

on a violet wool base

depicting an Iron Cross in the middle of the badge

due to their notoriously unpleasant conditions

78mm wing tip to wing tip

Pinned into the centre of the cap band is a tri-colour cockade constructed of gilded and blued bronze with a red felt centrepiece

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Newly Listed on a violet wool base(Nahkampfspange in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, above a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four oak leaves and sun rays with acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, designer marked PEEKHAUS, BERLIN and maker