Original German WWII Bronze Grade Panzer Assault Tank Badge - Hollow Back Style Antique Remingtons Steel outer of the lantern

Steel outer of the lantern is pitted from exposure but totally original in the black finish that it had in WW1

This helmet is stamped 596B

so we are not able to tell the exact era the blade was forged during

original wartime documents

Original German WWII Bronze Grade Panzer Assault Tank Badge - Hollow Back Style Antique Remingtons Steel outer of the lanternOriginal Items: Only One Available. The Panzer Badge (German: Panzerkampfabzeichen) was a World War II German military decoration awarded troops in armored divisions. The Panzer Badge was introduced on 20 December 1939, in order to recognize the achievements of Panzer personnel who took part in armored assaults. It was designed by the Berlin firm of Wilhelm Ernst Peekhaus, and was instituted by order of Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch. On 6 June