Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Josef Feix & Söhne Hold Footnote: this clasp is well

Footnote: this clasp is well illustrated in Dietrich Maerz/George Stimson Book “The Iron Cross 1st Class”

serving almost thirty-eight and a half years with the Royal Canadian Navy

finished with dual black ribbons at the rear

3 mm (h - inclusive of black enameled cross)

and Michael

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Josef Feix & Söhne Hold Footnote: this clasp is well(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of zink, the obverse centerpiece topped by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, with sun rays emanating from the centre of the left and right sides, and with four oak leaves and two acorns on each side, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked F. E. C. W. E. PEEKHAUS, BERLIN, maker marked with the