Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade Auction Archive At Drury Lane

At Drury Lane

Each pocket has a fold over flap

featuring ornamented laces in each quadrant also in bronze gilt

the reverse with a black wool backer

with a nicely enameled red background

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade Auction Archive At Drury Lane(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 36. 98 mm (w) x 44. 22 mm (h), weighing 10. 6 grams, some loss of black finish evident,