Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade Hold By coupling exceptional diplomatic skill

By coupling exceptional diplomatic skill and resourcefulness with a dynamic personality

Type II (1977-date)

the reverse bearing the dates 1914-1918 with inscription PRO DEO ET PATRIA

exhibiting a very clean condition overall

reverse centre presenting the Saxon coat of arms (alternating horizontal black and gold stripes with a diagonal rue crown)

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade Hold By coupling exceptional diplomatic skill(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of patinated bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consists of a circular laurel leaf wreath surrounding a white enameled disc, bearing a raised German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of KREISSIEGER 1939 (DISTRICT CHAMPION 1939). It was marked, but the marking has been erased. The award, however,