Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Province of China with a gilt zink hanger

with a gilt zink hanger suspended from the base of the clasp

Measuring 270mm (w) x 240mm (h) and weighing 825 grams

surrounding a central mobile swastika

5 mm (h) brass buckle via two prongs

the interior with an intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo with a maker’s code of “A4/149” and a secondary code of “318800”

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Province of China with a gilt zink hanger(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of patinated 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), maker marked H. AURICH, DRESDEN A. 16 for the firm of Hermann Aurich,