Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild Buy Now The leather is very smooth

The leather is very smooth to the touch

no paperwork exists on the Library and Archives Canada website

the centre of the obverse is a design depicting a harbour

The award was instituted in 1967 in ribbon bar form

Instituted on 28 September 1941

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild Buy Now The leather is very smooth(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval 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 hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 107 for Carl Wild, Hamburg, measuring 36. 73 mm (w) x 44. 11 mm