Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, Wide Pin Variant with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive triangular base centering National eagle

triangular base centering National eagle with wings stretched to each side clutching a wreath

where they fought to conquer the city of Riga and the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa

marked “DRGM” on the reverse

measuring 195 mm (w) x 43 mm (l)

all closing with pebbled buttons meeting reinforced buttonholes set into scalloped flaps

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, Wide Pin Variant with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive triangular base centering National eagle(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded tombak, 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 clip hinge and wide flat vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 30 for the Vienna Mint, measuring 36. 56 mm (w) x 43.