Germany, Hj. A 1939 District Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, By Ferdinand Wagner Auction Archive Assay Office on ring

Assay Office on ring

(Konge Haakon VII's Frihetsmedalje)

He arrived in San Diego

but in 1975

under a celluloid shield

Germany, Hj. A 1939 District Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, By Ferdinand Wagner Auction Archive Assay Office on ring(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, around a white enameled disc overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel, in turn bearing a HJ insignia, topped by an inscription of KREISSIEGER, flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened wire catch, maker marked