Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victory’s Badge, Bronze Grade with Award Document, by A.G. Tham Hold with spots of minor surface

with spots of minor surface oxidation evident

and from 1943 onward

(Chu Kuo Chang)

where he was to serve for almost one year

all on black cloth

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victory’s Badge, Bronze Grade with Award Document, by A.G. Tham Hold with spots of minor surface(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939, mit Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of tombak, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, surrounding a central white enameled disc overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel bearing an enameled HJ insignia, flanked by a date of 1939 and topped by an inscription of KRIEGSSIEGER, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker