Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Province of China With period photo of a

With period photo of a sailor Dragutin Jever

the interior with an intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo with a maker’s code of “A4/149” and a secondary code of “318800”

C-32-8 organization

with a gilt zink hanger suspended from the base of the clasp

measuring 88 mm (w) x 46 mm (h)

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Province of China With period photo of a(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of patinated bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath surrounding a white enameled disc, bearing a raised German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of KREISSIEGER 1939 (DISTRICT CHAMPION 1939), maker marked H. AURICH, DRESDEN A. 16 for the firm of Hermann Aurich,