Germany, Wehrmacht. A General Assault Badge Auction Abteilung (Staff 1st Detachment) Artillerie-Regiment

Abteilung (Staff 1st Detachment) Artillerie-Regiment 178

documenting his experiences and travels

Printed in black ink with the personalized inscriptions in black typewriter face on a newsprint paper stock

suspended from a miniature Ukrainian Combatant Cross in bronze gilt with blue and black enamels

designer marked on the obverse “Tautenhayn”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A General Assault Badge Auction Abteilung (Staff 1st Detachment) Artillerie-Regiment(Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, surrounding a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 48 mm (w) x 55. 55 mm (h), weighing 30. 3 grams, the catch demonstrates evidence of repair, in extremely fine