Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, Mk-Marked Auction Archive high quality manufacture with crisp

high quality manufacture with crisp details

reverse inscribed "DEN ERBAUERN DES ARLBERG-TUNNELS ZUR ERINNERUNG" inside an open-ended wreath of olive leaves

he would spend the course of the war

1943 and determined to have a "good physique

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, Mk-Marked Auction Archive high quality manufacture with crisp(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, 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 ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked