Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, AS Maker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac only a single slight bruise

only a single slight bruise

demonstrating quality of construction reflective of Germany’s deteriorating access to resources owing to wartime conditions

the panels are rolled up and secured in place at the front with two pebbled and black-painted buttons which emanate from the right panel and meet an equal number of reinforced buttonholes on the left

each of the six loops incorporating a disk bearing seven beads

the kurikata (knob) is present 38mm from the Koiguchi (scabbard mouth)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, AS Maker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac only a single slight bruise(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, 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 central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a ball hinge situated within a crimped base and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire