Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Auction (Bronzene Friedrich August Medaille)

(Bronzene Friedrich August Medaille)

on a coated white card stock

measuring 35 mm (w) x 35 (h) mm

bearing a central inscription of “SD-HAUPTAMT” in Fraktur script of identical construction

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Auction (Bronzene Friedrich August Medaille)(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwatz, 1. Form). Constructed of blackened brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 90 mm (w) x 43. 10 mm (h), weighing 12. 5, demonstrating some surface