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A DRL (German League of the Reich for Physical Exercise/Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen) bronze grade sports badge with its matching stick pin
It can be seen depicted in portraits as early as the late 1500s (worn by Grand Duke Francesco I de’Medici in 1584
Mary Trevathick Matthews but of course
the lightning bolts
including some running marks to the blade and tarnishing of the bronze elements
Germany, Wehmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, by Friedrich Linden Newly Listed A DRL (German League of(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, flanked on each side by four rays and oak leaves interspersed with acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked PEEKHAUS, BERLIN and maker marked with the logo of
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