Germany, Wehrmacht. A Heer Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Wilhelm Deumer - “Early” Hollow Zink Variant GTRexclude with scattered mothing and soiling

with scattered mothing and soiling evident

awarded by the head of the House of Romanov as former sovereigns of the Russian Empire

(Waffen-SS Kragenspiegel für Scharführer der Panzertruppe)

unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Rudolf Souval

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Heer Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Wilhelm Deumer - “Early” Hollow Zink Variant GTRexclude with scattered mothing and soiling(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