Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Gold Grade, By Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed (Soldbuch zugleich Personalausweis)

(Soldbuch zugleich Personalausweis)

divided into two sections - one section of a cord braided into multiple rows of loops - the second section with a slightly longer looped cord with a braided aluminum wire adjustment know

each of the bands engraved with a wavy zig-zag design along the top edge and sides

center in silver and gilt wire

indicative of the Signals (Air Communications) Corps

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Gold Grade, By Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed (Soldbuch zugleich Personalausweis)(Nahkampfspange in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse with a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika above a bayonet and stick grenade, with sun rays emanating from the centre of the left and right sides, and with four oak leaves and two acorns on each side, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with a magnetic metal centerpiece backer, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of