Germany, Heer. A Bronze Grade Infantry Assault Badge Auction Archive with a period/wartime neatly replaced

with a period/wartime neatly replaced center catch for stabilization and a horizontal slender banjo style pinback with a barrel hinge and a flat wire catch

and geology

Footnote: The award began as the Order of Military Valour

one with its horizontal pinback broken off

with ribbon and broach

Germany, Heer. A Bronze Grade Infantry Assault Badge Auction Archive with a period/wartime neatly replaced(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen, in Bronze). Instituted 2012 December 1939 by Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch. (Issued 1939 1945). Constructed in bronzed zink, the Infantry Assault Badge comprises of an oval shaped oak leaf wreath, both sides consisting of four upwards pointing leaves, the bottom of the badge has a stylized bow holding the wreath together, the wreath itself is crossed by the rifle with its bayonet pointing upwards from lower