Original German WWII Bronze Close Combat Clasp by C.E. Juncker of Berlin - Missing Backing Plate MG 08-15 Maxim With tracer bullets streaking past

With tracer bullets streaking past their heads

which translates to “Visaed by the Accounting Department of the Ministry of War

We cannot be certain its WWII manufacture but if not its early post war

this requirement also made them largely inefficient

and then oxide coated

Original German WWII Bronze Close Combat Clasp by C.E. Juncker of Berlin - Missing Backing Plate MG 08-15 Maxim With tracer bullets streaking pastOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice original German WWII Nahkampfspange in Bronze, or Bronze Close Combat Clasp, manufactured by the renowned Berlin firm C. E. Juncker from the design of military artist Wilhelm Ernst Peekhaus. The clasp is of the characteristic slightly vaulted zinc construction and retains an age toned appearance with faint traces of its original bronze finish remaining in protected areas. The obverse displays the