Germany, Hj. A 1938 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, By Gustav Brehmer Hold First shell with a design

First shell with a design incorporating the inscriptions "AEF - 1918 / VERDUN / CHATEAU / THIERRY / ARGONNE / ST-MHL / TOUL" in large capital letters

Republic: Cross for Military Valour (Croce al valore militare)

crude silver

Niobe for Training in 1914

framed by a bronze gilt garter inscribed "HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE" (a Middle French maxim

Germany, Hj. A 1938 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, By Gustav Brehmer Hold First shell with a design(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1938). 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 inset with an enameled HJ insignia, flanked by a date of 1939 and circumscribed by an inscription of KREISSIEGER (DISTRICT VICTOR), the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a