Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Auction Footnote: Air Marshal Harold “Gus”

Footnote: Air Marshal Harold “Gus” Edwards

measuring 270 mm (w) x 360 mm (h)

replacement vertical pinback

overlaid by a central Cross Pattée bearing an inscription of “M

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Auction Footnote: Air Marshal Harold “Gus”(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of 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), the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,