Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Hold WWI 123rd Infantry Battalion Cap

WWI 123rd Infantry Battalion Cap Badge CEF - Browning copper

loss of silver finish evident and the horizontal pinback has lost its hinge and catch

"It was as fine a piece of work as I ever saw in my life

With a central motif of a German mark 24 stick grenade crossed with a 98k carbine bayonet

Mussolini started to talk about an Italian dominated Mediterranean sea

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Hold WWI 123rd Infantry Battalion Cap(Nahkampfspange in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse with a central Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, within a square oak leaf wreath, with sun rays emanating from the centre of the left and right sides, flanked on each side by four oak leaves and two acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Friedrich