Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer visually-hidden Louis’s cape in obverse medallion

Louis’s cape in obverse medallion

a Federal Republic-era Kyffäuser Monument centenary medal

measures 33 mm in diameter

20 mm x 42

it was meant to be its civilian counterpart

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Gustav Brehmer visually-hidden Louis’s cape in obverse medallion(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf 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 and flanked by a date of 1938, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire