Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, by Friedrich Linden United Republic of reverse engraved "CROSS COUNTRY RUN

reverse engraved "CROSS COUNTRY RUN / 1922 / Won by No

capsule-shaped and covered in a pebbled leather wrap

was one of 200 doctors and nurses who left Chicago last Wednesday night in a body for the battlefields of France"

Sawyer and Flora Belle Bickford

scattered discolouration in the silvered bullion

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, by Friedrich Linden United Republic of reverse engraved "CROSS COUNTRY RUN(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a unique crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened integral