Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, B.h. Mayer Design Auction Archive credited with twenty-two years' service

credited with twenty-two years' service

he continued to make his presence known in the army well into the Second World War

The underside of the brim is composed of a forest green cotton twill

shows a Deutsches Reich postage stamp

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, B.h. Mayer Design Auction Archive credited with twenty-two years' service(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of a silvered zink alloy, 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, around a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but