Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude In embroidered silver wire thread

In embroidered silver wire thread over field gray wool

multiple voided areas in the handle

1938 (CAO: 113-1938)

"Virtuti pro patria" (Bravery for the fatherland)

(Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps Rhön-Segelflug Wettbewerbsabzeichen)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude In embroidered silver wire thread(Nahkampfspange). Constructed of silvered feinzinc, the obverse bears a national eagle with outstretched wings clutching a swastika in its talons, the cut out centre bears a crossed bayonet and hand grenade, on a magnetic blackened iron background, sun rays emanate from the centre of the left and right sides with four oak leaves and two acorns on each side, the reverse is unmarked but bears characteristics of Steinhauer & Lck, and bears a horizontal