Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By B.h. Mayer United Republic of leather-look cloth cover

leather-look cloth cover

both on black wool backing

bronze and enamelled 9th Infantry Division on one side

as well as red

(Anstecksträußchen)

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By B.h. Mayer United Republic of leather-look cloth cover(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen 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, 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 crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked