An Early Battle of France Tank Badge Document and Photograph to the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
Tank Assault Badge in Bronze Award Document (inscribed "Besitzzeugnis / Dem SS-Sturmmann Herbert Pantke Pz.Späh.-Zug/Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler wurde das Panzerkampfabzeichen in "Bronze" verliehen. / St.Qu., den 30. Juli 1940 (July 30, 1940) / SS-Obergruppenführer u. General der Waffen-SS", signature of SS-Obergruppenführer Jacob Otto Dietrich in black ink, stamped in blue ink with the Waffen-SS Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler" seal, printed in black ink, 203 mm x 296 mm, horizontal fold mark); and Photograph of SS-Sturmmann Herbert Pantke in Uniform (black and white, matte finish, marked "Herbert Pantke" in pencil on the reverse, 175 mm x 235 mm). Extremely fine.