Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Gold Grade, With Case Auction on a medium blue cotton

on a medium blue cotton blended armband

surrounded by the inscription "DIE K

evidence of period repair visible to the pinback

A brass drum hanger

positioned above a national tri-coloured cockade

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Gold Grade, With Case Auction on a medium blue cotton(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold mit Etui). 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 crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 16 mm (w) x 45. 73 mm (h), weighing 30. 9 grams, accompanied by its period