Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild Newly Listed Instituted in 1930 (in bronze

Instituted in 1930 (in bronze

Purple Heart (engraved "L

measuring 115 mm (w) x 152 mm (h)

for a period of ten weeks

One of the men from the previous picture

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild Newly Listed Instituted in 1930 (in bronze(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a clip hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 107 for Carl Wild, Hamburg, measuring 36. 83 mm (w) x 44.