Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade Archive Silver with artificial patination

Silver with artificial patination

" The Medical Officer recommended that Carmichael be discharged

Naming has been removed and privately impressed

of which only ten of them were entitled to the COOMASSIE clasp

maker marked RESCH for Joseph Resch

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade Archive Silver with artificial patination(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel wreath, joined at the bottom by a bowtie ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 62 mm (w) x 44. 84 mm (h), weighing 7. 4 grams, in very fine condition.