Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Hold both prongs fully intact (one

both prongs fully intact (one previously repaired/replaced)

It was used during both world wars for burials from the hospital

This type of the cross was issued very early and probably less then few hundreds were awarded

trimmed with fine twisted and rolled gold bullion wire piping

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Hold both prongs fully intact (one(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath surrounding a white enameled disc, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, topped by an inscription of KREISSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire