Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Auction Archive (Patriotische Gürtelschnalle)

(Patriotische Gürtelschnalle)

addressed to his sister

13 mm (h - inclusive of horizontally pierced integral ring)

the reverse features a vertical pin assembly with dual stays

issued to Frau Margarete Schunke

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer Auction Archive (Patriotische Gürtelschnalle)(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of silvered tombak 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 defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by a silvered inscription of GAUSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a