Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive An Early War Merit Cross

An Early War Merit Cross with Swords First class by Maker 43 - In silvered tombac

A 1934 Hause Kurt Schmalz bad-Harzburg Einweihung badge

flanked on each side by nine oak leaves

Heavy nickel-plated steel crossguard with quillon

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive An Early War Merit Cross(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, with a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika on the top and a bowtie on the bottom, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k with the bayonet attached to the front of the barrel and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,