Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive by 1 December 1918

by 1 December 1918

Badische Infanterie-Regiment „Kaiser Friedrich III

Chasseloup-Laubat was the descendant of a minor noble family from Saintonge whose members were Huguenot but converted to Catholicism in the seventeenth century

reverse illustrating a scroll engraved "Presented by INSTITUTO DA DEFESA NACIONAL Lisbon"

the reverse with an inscription of “DEUTSCHE VERDIENST-MEDAILLE” (“GERMAN MERIT MEDAL”) in raised Fraktur script

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive by 1 December 1918(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, with a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring