Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, Hollow Cupal Version by F.W. Assmann & Söhne Newly Listed with maker mark “Maria Schenkl

with maker mark “Maria Schenkl

Footnote: The Galloway Rifle Volunteers were a 19th-century Scottish volunteer infantry unit raised for home defence in southwest Scotland

illustrating and discussing these medals

cross measuring 11 mm (w) x 22 mm (h)

769 confirmed awards of all classes of this order of decoration were issued during the war years

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, Hollow Cupal Version by F.W. Assmann & Söhne Newly Listed with maker mark “Maria Schenkl(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered cupal, 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, surrounding a Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with the logo of