Germany, Hj. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, By Ferdinand Wagner Archive Silver Grade for Twenty Years'

Silver Grade for Twenty Years' Exemplary Service and Bronze Grade for Ten Years' Exemplary Service

light remains from previous collector’s mounting on the reverse

eagle above and ribbon banner inscribed "CHINESE GUN CLUB" below

maker marked "R" (Alfred Rösner

Three and a half weeks later

Germany, Hj. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, By Ferdinand Wagner Archive Silver Grade for Twenty Years'(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, around a white enameled disc bearing a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel, in turn overlaid by an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of KREISSIEGER 1939 (DISTRICT VICTOR 1939), the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker