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

red enamels representing the caterpillar's eyes

In die Stamped in feinzink

1941 for an undisclosed illness

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