Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Wound Badges Newly Listed with functional push-button

with functional push-button

he initially joined the NSDAP in November 1920 and was arrested for “disobedience and resistance” to French occupation forces in the Rhineland

In die stamped gilded bronze

which have been culled over the years from a variety of sources"

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Wound Badges Newly Listed with functional push-button(Verwundetenabzeichen). A pair of Wound Badges, including: 1. A Gold Grade award, first pattern, constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a raised 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, unmarked, measuring 37. 82 mm