Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Owner-Attributed Example, by Gustav Brehmer GTRexclude reverse inscribed "SOCIEDADE DE GEOGRAPHIA

reverse inscribed "SOCIEDADE DE GEOGRAPHIA DE LISBOA" (Lisbon Geographic Society)

It features a 250 mm-long polished magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and a fuller running down the length of each side

minor material fatigue is evident and includes some shrinkage owing to age and storage conditions which has distorted the base material and wire features

with machine embroidered golden threads “NSD Oberschule Starnbergersee”

the obverse features an SA sports badge depicting a vertical broadsword over a mobile swastika surrounded by a laurel wreath

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Owner-Attributed Example, by Gustav Brehmer GTRexclude reverse inscribed "SOCIEDADE DE GEOGRAPHIA(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1938). Constructed of bronze, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel wreath surrounding a white enameled disc, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of KREISSIEGER (DISTRICT VICTOR) and flanked by a date of 1938, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker