Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Orth consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with single blue enamel chip

with single blue enamel chip

the doctor describing it as "Erysipelas" (an acute infection typically with a skin rash

and carries a facsimile of the Supreme Commander West

enabling the chain mail to be lifted up and the ends of the strands of the chain to be looped around the hooks

and deployed on the Eastern Front

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Orth consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with single blue enamel chip(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 Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo