Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, By Carl Wild Auction Archive lacquer drip on the edge

lacquer drip on the edge

Footnote: Paul Clinton Fitzgerald was born on December 29

Private Sydney William Morton survived the war

1873 in Weidenau near Sieg

with four gilded bronze rank pips pinned through reverse and two machine-embroidered gold wire bands

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Silver Grade, By Carl Wild Auction Archive lacquer drip on the edge(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel wreath, with a central 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, marked with code 107 for maker Carl Wild, Hamburg, measuring 36. 77 mm (w) x 44. 32 mm (h), weighing 26. 7 grams, in near extremely fine condition.