Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Auction measuring 270 mm (w) x

measuring 270 mm (w) x 360 mm (h)

Footnote: Asa Bird Gardiner (September 30

with a contact mark passing through one arm of the swastika and multiple contact marks on the raised oval rim around the insignia

where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Education

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Auction measuring 270 mm (w) x(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of 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), the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,