Germany, Hj. A 1944 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, By Gustav Brehmer Archive 44mm(width) x 72

44mm(width) x 72

Each “section” of the helmet features four blackened metal (magnetic) breather holes

with minor material fatigue evident to the obverse of the wool and with some loosening of the wire and wool to the reverse of both

Stitched onto the peak of the cap is an insignia in the form of a dark green cotton backer bearing a machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

ribbon bars

Germany, Hj. A 1944 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, By Gustav Brehmer Archive 44mm(width) x 72(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1944). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, surrounding a white painted disc, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel overlaid by an HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of GAUSIEGER 1944, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked G. BREHMER, MARKNEUKIRCHEN, measuring 49. 69 mm