The blade is embedded into the heavy steel crossguard that is designed with a ring at one end for placement upon the barrel of a rifle
1905 in Bliesdorf/ Hamburg
Footnote: Alfred Methven Collard was born in 1877 in Marylebone
elongated loop for ribbon connection stamped B
War Medal 1939-1945 (with bronze MID oak leaf)
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade Hold The blade is embedded into(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, unmarked,