Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild certificate_of_authenticity but without cloth backing

but without cloth backing

chipping and loss evident in the red enamels on the star point at 5 o'clock: Order of the Patriotic War

the Battalion was absorbed into the 69th Battalion

in 1943/44

on June 1st

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild certificate_of_authenticity but without cloth backing(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular 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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, with some loss of finish evident, in very fine condition.