Germany, Hj. A 1939 District Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, By Ferdinand Wagner Hold LONG SERVICE 1940 (GEORGE WILSON)

LONG SERVICE 1940 (GEORGE WILSON)

chipping evident in the green enamels on the right arm

1945) below

Private William Reader

35 mm x 51

Germany, Hj. A 1939 District Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, By Ferdinand Wagner Hold LONG SERVICE 1940 (GEORGE WILSON)(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, around a white enameled disc overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel, in turn bearing a HJ insignia, topped by an inscription of KREISSIEGER, flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened wire catch, maker marked