Germany, Hj. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, By Hermann Aurich GTRexclude case stamped on reverse “L/56”

case stamped on reverse “L/56” (extremely fine condition)

concealed within its original card stock envelope

silver plane affixed to the front cover and engraved "No 9 AIR OBSERVER SCHOOL

a former warlord of Manchuria

42 mm x 56

Germany, Hj. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, By Hermann Aurich GTRexclude case stamped on reverse “L/56”(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1938). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, surrounding a central white enameled disc, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel, in turn bearing an enameled HJ insignia, flanked by a date of 1939 and topped by an inscription of KREISSIEGER, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a