Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Friedrich Orth GTRexclude Marine Corps issue

Marine Corps issue

Several tunic buttons have been replaced with period examples

Instituted by Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico in 1865

which was followed three weeks later by his promotion to the rank of Major

a bar featuring a 1914 Iron Cross

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by Friedrich Orth GTRexclude Marine Corps issue(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a barrel hinge emanating from a rectangular base and vertical pinback meeting