Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, by Friedrich Linden visually-hidden First Class - Breast star

First Class - Breast star

possibly reading “RATH”

the rear and the sides trimmed in dark brown embroidered piping

and enlisted in the Wehrmacht in Bernburg on 3 July 1939

” and leaf detailing

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, by Friedrich Linden visually-hidden First Class - Breast star(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, overlaid by a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, in turn situated above a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four rays and four oak leaves with two acorns, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an