Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild Newly Listed During the Great Fire of

During the Great Fire of 1842

traces of its original gilt remains

was killed in October 1915 while with a Feldflieger Abteilungen (FFA = Field Flier Companies)

An award document for a 1939 Iron Cross I Class

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild Newly Listed During the Great Fire of(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded feinzink, 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 a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 107 for Carl Wild, Hamburg, measuring 36. 73 mm (w) x 44. 11 mm