Italy, Kingdom. A Second War Italian Commander’s Tank Badge Auction Archive yet afterwards did not return

yet afterwards did not return for duty immediately

bearing four bands of silver aluminum wire piping interspersed with black and white threading

(Reich Forstdienst Kragenspiegel)

3rd Class 1938 with Ribbon Bar

Italy, Kingdom. A Second War Italian Commander’s Tank Badge Auction Archive yet afterwards did not returnIn bronze gilt with red and black enamels, illustrating a dragon hovering over a tank, surrounded by an open ended wreath of oak leaves, inscribed "FERREA MOLE FERREO CVORE" (Iron Heart, Iron Mole), measuring 46. 5 mm (w) x 31. 5 mm (h), slide locking horizontal pinback, intact enamels, in its original glassine package of issue, mint.