Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction (Portepees)

(Portepees)

references to more than three hundred further recipients and an increase in the text of about a third

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Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction (Portepees)(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, 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 wreathed mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,