Germany, Third Reich. A Special Grade Tank Badge For 75 Panzer Engagments, Later Semihollow Juncker Auction Archive just shy of his nineteenth

just shy of his nineteenth birthday

Assistant Adjutant and Inspector

: Die-stamped bronze gilt

It is a post-war copy of a photo taken in February 1944

suspension hallmarked with French assay silver hallmarked denoting manufacture since 1838

Germany, Third Reich. A Special Grade Tank Badge For 75 Panzer Engagments, Later Semihollow Juncker Auction Archive just shy of his nineteenth(Panzerkampfabzeichen mit Einsatzzahl 75). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink; the obverse consisting of a border of oak leaves with a box at the base displaying the numeral 75, with a Panzer superimposed in the centre rolling over wooden logs, with its left tank track extending over the edge of the badge; the reverse plain with a vertical banjo style pin, a barrel block hinge, and a flat catch on a circular base; with two rivets on the reverse;