Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade Archive an Arbeitsdank badge

an Arbeitsdank badge

70 mm (w) x 100

with the three and nine o’clock arms bearing monograms and the six and twelve o’clock arms bearing a hand-painted institution date of “INSTIT’D I MART 1788”

There is also a picture of Kaiser as a young man

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade Archive an Arbeitsdank badge(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered tombak, 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, around a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 41.