Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Rudolf Souval Auction Archive A fine quality screwback Iron

A fine quality screwback Iron Cross 1939 First Class with crisp details

cast in Paris

constructed of an aluminum alloy and bearing double-sided

with feathering and details highlighted in gilt

on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon on a pentagonal backplate

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Rudolf Souval Auction Archive A fine quality screwback Iron(Panzerkampfabzeichen 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, around a central depiction of a Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker