Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Bremher consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac on full length of gray

on full length of gray lanyard with interwoven aluminum thread cord

Upon his return from leave

He signed his Attestation Paper (405124) with the 35th Infantry Battalion

27 mm (w) x 28 mm (h)

on a grayish-blue wool base

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Bremher consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac on full length of gray(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1944). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, surrounding a central white painted disc, overlaid by a raised German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of GAUSIEGER and a date of 1944, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked G. BREHMER,