Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victory’s Badge, Bronze Grade with Award Document, by A.G. Tham Hold measuring 178 mm (w) x

measuring 178 mm (w) x 252 mm (h)

Lieutenant General equivalent) Ruidisch

good very fine and better: Ex Sampson Collection of Medals to the Black Watch

where he was to serve for almost one year

navy blue felt medal bed with recessed areas for the badge

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victory’s Badge, Bronze Grade with Award Document, by A.G. Tham Hold measuring 178 mm (w) x(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939, mit Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of tombak, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, surrounding a central white enameled disc overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel bearing an enameled HJ insignia, flanked by a date of 1939 and topped by an inscription of KRIEGSSIEGER, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker