Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern certificate_of_authenticity reprinted in 1996

reprinted in 1996

D'S'N" (Registered Design)

73 mm x 118 mm

Third Class - silvered

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern certificate_of_authenticity reprinted in 1996(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, 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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 39. 03 mm (w) x 43. 79 mm (h), weighing 13. 1 grams, with