Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Friedrich Orth Auction manufactured without swords

manufactured without swords

with which he would participate in the attack on Russia in the summer of 1941

which overlooks the Douai Plains

early manufacture “Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes” by a desired maker

inclusive of sword and laurel suspension 56

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Friedrich Orth Auction manufactured without swords(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, 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 LDO code L14 for Friedrich Orth, Vienna, measuring 36. 17 mm (w) x 43. 91 mm (h), weighing