Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich certificate_of_authenticity measuring 58 mm (w) x

measuring 58 mm (w) x 64 mm (h)

on the island of Rügen on the Baltic Sea

At the outbreak of the Second War

the bottom one slotted to accommodate the breast star

The linage of the Creech family can be traced to 1622

Germany, HJ. A 1939 National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich certificate_of_authenticity measuring 58 mm (w) x(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1939). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath surrounding a white enameled disc, bearing a raised German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an enameled HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of KREISSIEGER 1939 (DISTRICT CHAMPION 1939), the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,