Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, with Case and Stick Pin Miniature, by the Vienna Mint Auction Men's Issue (Ehrenzeichen des Roten

Men's Issue (Ehrenzeichen des Roten Kreuzes)

December 1918 and January 1920

its purported author

probably an infantry unit

weighing 397

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, with Case and Stick Pin Miniature, by the Vienna Mint Auction Men's Issue (Ehrenzeichen des Roten(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold mit Etui und Anstecknadel). 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 vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by the Vienna Mint,