1940 Panzer Assault Badge in Bronze by EWE
Price: $550
BUY / RESERVE THIS ITEMDescription:.Panzer assault badge in bronze by EWE, Edelmetallwerke List & Hertl, Wien. HIghest quality fein-zink PAB with chocolate bronze finish showing little porosity as is usually the case on zinc badges; Type 1 having a copper colored base coating under the quality brennlack finish; these badges are known for extensive hand finishing all over and heavily around the eagle’s head & wing tips. The obverse tank profile is also more vaulted than on most PABs. The maker marked EWE is for ‘Edelmetallwerke List & Hertl’ from Vienna.These EWE badges are scarce; 59 x 42mm & 34grams.
Reference: “The German Panzer Assault Badge of WWII” by Phillipe De Bock, Pages 554-560
Background: The Panzer Assault Badge in bronze was introduced by Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch on June 1ST 1940 for award to Panzer-Grenadier, medical, and armored car personnel who participated in three different armored assaults on three different days. The design of the badge was identical to the earlier instituted Panzer Assault Badge in silver for Panzer personnel except for the coloration. By June 1943 it was realized that the Panzer Assault Badge didn’t sufficiently recognize the number of assaults participated in by armored personnel, which resulted in the introduction of the numbered Special Grade of the Panzer Assault Badge in both silver and bronze versions June 1943. The numbered Special Grade of the Panzer Assault Badge were awarded with the numerals, 25, 50, 75 and 100. The numbered badges followed the basic design of their un-numbered predecessors but were larger and had the addition of an inset rectangular box with a numeral to the bottom of the wreath.
