Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Auction Archive and in the Edinburgh Gazette

and in the Edinburgh Gazette on Monday

A certificate of awarding of the Iron Cross 2nd Class to Unteroffizier (Corporal) Walter Burgdorf of the Regiment General Göring

the top loop of each side pair on the pocket itself and the bottom loop on the body of the tunic

number impressed "788" on the reverse

a post he held until his retirement on May 31

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Auction Archive and in the Edinburgh Gazette(Nahkampfspange in Silber). With a central motif of a German mark 24 stick grenade crossed with a 98k carbine bayonet, which is surmounted by the army national emblem eagle clutching a swastika in its talons, the eagles wings appear to be sitting on a box created by six small oak leaves, adjacent to these oak leaves is ornate scrollwork which frames the sides of the central motif, extending outward from each side of the central motif are two ridged