Germany, Federal Republic. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, 1957 Issue Auction Cross exhibits light contact

Cross exhibits light contact

Footnote: This membership stickpin was worn by Germans living in the Alsace-Lorraine Region of France who supported the annexation of that region to the Third German Reich in 1938

illustrating the obverse and reverse of the medal

about 40 enemy scouts attacked the formation

Germany, Federal Republic. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, 1957 Issue Auction Cross exhibits light contact(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz, 1957). An oval shaped blackened metal alloy; the obverse pebbled with a Stahlhelm superimposed on crossed swords within a wreath of laurel leaves with a tied bow at the bottom, the reverse plain with a slender vertical pinback, with a functional hinge catch assembly, measuring 37. 03 mm (w) x 44. 29 mm (h), weighing 12. 2 grams, and in near very fine condition.