Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer certificate_of_authenticity of thin grey cardboard cover

of thin grey cardboard cover displaying an eagle with folded wings and a mobile swastika in its claws

this airman was the rear gunner of an aircraft engaged on a reconnaissance flight over the Tunisian Road

with their original ribbons looped onto a fabric button

the reverse inscribed “LITTERIS ET ARTIBUS” (Latin - Letters and Arts)

He served on both the Eastern and Western Fronts of the First World War

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Brehmer certificate_of_authenticity of thin grey cardboard cover(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of silvered tombak 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, circumscribed by a silvered inscription of GAUSIEGER and flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a