Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Karl Wurster certificate_of_authenticity and on September 18

and on September 18

Austin one of fifteen posthumous awardees that day

in die pressed steel)

ranging in size from 133 mm (w) x 83 mm (h) to 130 mm (w) x 95 mm (h)

twenty-six marked "STERLING" on their reverses

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Karl Wurster certificate_of_authenticity and on September 18(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a narrow barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the upper left