A Fine Silver Grade Wound Badge By Carl Wild With Original Packet Of Issue Auction Archive a rare and very desirable

a rare and very desirable WWI period German badge (from Stephen Previtera collection)

with his conduct noted as "Exemplary"

The interior of the helmet is marked with several black ink stamps

marked “3” on reverse

A Fine Silver Grade Wound Badge By Carl Wild With Original Packet Of Issue Auction Archive a rare and very desirableThis is a fine quality manufacture silver grade wound badge; manufactured in silvered zink; vertical pinback; maker marked 107 (Carl Wild, Hamburg); measuring 44 mm x 36 mm; weighing 24. 9 grams; silvering about 60% intact mostly worn off on the left side. Original packet of issue; the obverse marked Verwundeten Abzeichen Silver (Wound Badge Silver); the reverse maker marked Carl Wild, Metallwarenfabrik, Hamburg 24; measuring 92 mm x 62 mm; overall