Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Hold but with sufficient gilding remaining

but with sufficient gilding remaining to positively identify this example as a gold grade close combat clasp

Naming is engraved on all three

made "in field"

12 mm x 14

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Hold but with sufficient gilding remaining(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, with a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four sun rays and four oak leaves with acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, designer marked PEEKHAUS, BERLIN, maker marked with