Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Wehrmacht Fliegererkennungstuch)

(Wehrmacht Fliegererkennungstuch)

with “25” embossed within an open-ended wreath on the outside of the lid

marked "III" (Third Class) and number stamped "27460" on the reverse

On the nights of January 1 and 2

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Wehrmacht Fliegererkennungstuch)(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of patinated bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting 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), maker marked H. AURICH, DRESDEN A. 16 for the firm of Hermann Aurich,