Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Buy Now processed on 22 May 1917

processed on 22 May 1917

the son of Elijah and Sarah Race Garton

resulting in a case of "shell shock"

One in rolled silvered copper wire on black felt

cleaned with slight pimpling to obverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Buy Now processed on 22 May 1917(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz mit Etui). Constructed of blackened bronze, 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 an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 11 for Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, measuring 36. 66 mm (w) x