Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Auction trying to retrieve money and

trying to retrieve money and personal belongings of her late husband and herself held by the German government

only small cracks in the dial near the 5 o’clock edge

chippin and loss evident in the blue enamels on the centrepiece ring)

The unusual construction of this example possibly reflects Finnish or other Axis manufacture

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Auction trying to retrieve money and(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber 1. Modell). Constructed of silvered brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, 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 crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 52 mm (w) x 44. 40 mm(h), weighing 8. 5 grams, a