Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade With Case, By Hermann Aurich Auction Archive with map of the cemetery

with map of the cemetery and map of the area

sewn onto a green rayon backer

each of which bears a flaming grenade

A period original black leather washer covers the blade’s transition into a nickel-silver hooked quillon

with only slight loss of gilt finish evident to high-contact points

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade With Case, By Hermann Aurich Auction Archive with map of the cemetery(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber mit Etui). Constructed of silvered zink, 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 wreathed 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 maker unique crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire