Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Josef Feix & Söhne Newly Listed Essential Services

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At the beginning of the First World War

measuring 13 mm (w) x 23

with an additional smaller slit at the lower left breast flap for the accommodation of a dagger hanger

light wear to corners and edges

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Josef Feix & Söhne Newly Listed Essential Services(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). 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 mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a