Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Auction centrepiece in gilt and enamels

centrepiece in gilt and enamels and illustrating a red enamelled cross

it noted that there was a "foreign body in (his) left knee joint" on November 18

the obverse with a central fireman blowing a horn and clutching a hose

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seven are maker marked ""Drago Paris Nice""

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Auction centrepiece in gilt and enamels(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, 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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 39. 10 mm (w) x 44. 45 mm (h), weighing 13. 7 grams,