Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Deschler & Sohn United Republic of Footnote: Wartime Engineman Samuel Thomas

Footnote: Wartime Engineman Samuel Thomas Aston LT/KX

measuring 48 mm x 31 mm

August 1916

This dagger is striaght from Germany

Original ribbon with its ends sewn together

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Deschler & Sohn United Republic of Footnote: Wartime Engineman Samuel Thomas(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen). Instituted 20 December 1939 by Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch. (Issued 1939 1945). Constructed of silvered zinc, obverse depicting an oval shaped oak leaf wreath topped by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika with a bow tie at the bottom, Karabiner 98k rifle with bayonet and carrying sling set diagonally across badge, maker marked with AS initial logo of Adolf Schwerdt, measuring 61. 88 mm (h)