Germany, Wehrmacht. A General Assault Badge, by Rudolf Karneth Newly Listed with multiple black horsehair bristles

with multiple black horsehair bristles

all on a Luftwaffe-blue-grey wool base

Footnote: Arthur Ironside was born on August 24

The Order was designed by historian Stojan Novakovich

"to bestow rewards

Germany, Wehrmacht. A General Assault Badge, by Rudolf Karneth Newly Listed with multiple black horsehair bristles(Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, surrounding a central Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, situated above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of an uncommon hollow zink variant