Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive fine quality example in BeVo

fine quality example in BeVo style embroidery in grey treadinging of the word “Wiking” on a black embroidered background

obverse bearing a right facing portrait of King Umberto I

the reverse inscribed in Malay written in Arabic characters (without the unwritten small vowels) ‘Dmhkootakn / Dbali Lbsr / Krajan’

circumscribed “The Leader Ante Pavelić”

instituted a “Strjdersteken der WA” literally “Fighters Badge”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive fine quality example in BeVo(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a clip hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 30 for the Vienna Mint, measuring 36. 32 mm (w) x 43. 84 mm