Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, With Case And Stick Pin Miniature, By Wächtler & Lange Auction measuring 49 mm x 54

measuring 49 mm x 54 mm

dated "1939-1945" on the reverse

and almost entirely destroyed when the city fell in February 1945

constructed of multiple rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire and completing in a stylized acorn with a red wool centrepiece

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, With Case And Stick Pin Miniature, By Wächtler & Lange Auction measuring 49 mm x 54(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber mit Etui und Anstecknadel). Constructed of silvered zink, 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 an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular baseplate, the latter maker marked with