Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern, by Otto Schickle Auction Archive measuring 80 x22 mm

measuring 80 x22 mm

constructed of pressed cardstock with a textured black faux leather exterior

his cap with the spread-winged eagle and swastika insignia on the peak and the skull insignia on the front below

Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps - Silver-plated

It is crafted out of a sheet of molybdenum steel (magnetic)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern, by Otto Schickle Auction Archive measuring 80 x22 mm(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 wide crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Otto