Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, First Pattern GTRexclude with black backer

with black backer

measuring 46 mm (w) x 42 mm (h)

Some cracking of the visor’s cardboard core is evident

the twelve o’clock arm with an integral suspension loop

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, First Pattern GTRexclude with black backer(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered bronze, 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 round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 57 mm (w) x 42. 85 mm (h), weighing 12. 2 grams, in a rare first pattern badge