Two Wehrmacht Miniature Awards Newly Listed and with the lug bars

and with the lug bars being slightly bent from use

nickel-plated hilt fittings with embedded black celluloid plates on either side held firmly in place with two rivets

was a voluntary labor service that was the predecessor of the RAD Organization

The obverse ricasso is numbered "1773"

Hollister died on October 25

Two Wehrmacht Miniature Awards Newly Listed and with the lug barsBoth of fine quality: Assault Badge, Grade I (silvered feinzink, unmarked, 13 mm x 16. 2 mm, on a 48. 5 mm pin); and Infantry Badge, Silver Grade (silvered feinzink, unmarked, 12. 5 mm x 16. 3 mm, on a 48. 7 mm pin). Scattered silvering wear on both, near extremely fine.