Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Ferdinand Wagner Archive carefully hand-painted centrepiece

carefully hand-painted centrepiece

Air Force Achievement Medal (in silvered bronze

70 mm (w) x 42

presenting 15 ribbons in total

5 mm in width x 58

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Ferdinand Wagner Archive carefully hand-painted centrepiece(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 medallion overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of KREISSIEGER 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker