Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, 6-Dot Variant consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac before General McClellan and Staff

before General McClellan and Staff

XI Summer Olympic Games Berlin Pin 1936

maker marked with the Jacoby Brothers of Vancouver aladdin lamp insignia on the reverse

Released as part of the Führer’s 50th birthday celebrations

46 mm(w) x 49

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, 6-Dot Variant consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac before General McClellan and Staff(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, situated above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, overlaying a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four rays and oak leaves with two acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the