Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Hold It was used during both

It was used during both world wars for burials from the hospital

maker marked "V&J" (Villiers and Jackson)

This type of the cross was issued very early and probably less then few hundreds were awarded

about half in black and white

a mutiny broke out in the army and violence erupted between black and white civilians

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Hold It was used during both(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath surrounding a white enameled disc, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, topped by an inscription of KREISSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire