Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, By Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a miniature NSDAP membership badge

a miniature NSDAP membership badge

1895 - July 23

the colours remaining crisp

Arras 1917-18

the structure of the case has warped and the spring catch no longer functions

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, By Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a miniature NSDAP membership badge(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered 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 raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring