Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by A.G. Tham visually-hidden two Identification Tags: in silvered

two Identification Tags: in silvered metal

73mm (h – inclusive of cross adorned laterally pierced integral ball)

among which are - the Order of Merit for the People with Silver Rays

Issued 1847-1918

until the war broke out

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by A.G. Tham visually-hidden two Identification Tags: in silvered(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf). Constructed of bronze 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 KREISSIEGER (DISTRICT VICTOR) and a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback