Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, by C.E. Juncker Newly Listed 1940 and signed in blue

1940 and signed in blue ink by Major General Karl Barlen (1890–1956)

original bow ribbon

Cheshire (in English

McLennan and Elizabeth (Lizena) Campbell of Apple Hill

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, by C.E. Juncker Newly Listed 1940 and signed in blue(Nahkampfspange in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, situated above a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four stylized rays and four oak leaves with two acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked W. E. PEEKHAUS,