Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge Newly Listed all with original ribbons

all with original ribbons

The silver dial features stick hour markers and a date wheel in the place of the 3 o’clock hour marker

220 pages plus hardcover

the reverse inscribed “VERDIENST IM KRIEGE” (German - Merit in War)

A Military Merit Cross with Crown and Swords

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge Newly Listed all with original ribbons(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf 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 an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked, measuring 35. 95 mm (w) x 43. 64 mm (h), weighing 23. 6 grams, with some loss of finish evident, a late