Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Gold Grade, By The Vienna Mint Archive Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914

Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (silver with black enamels

1893 in Halifax

with the Vionville-Mars La Tour

measuring 57 mm (w) x 80 mm (l) x 24 mm (h)

(provenance: Morton & Eden

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Gold Grade, By The Vienna Mint Archive Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914(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 Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by the Vienna Mint, measuring 36. 64 mm (w) x 44. 18 mm (h), weighing