Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, By B.h. Mayer certificate_of_authenticity Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

a selective few from various regiments were picked to form the original units

loss of obverse centre surround

Long Island Sound 1872

They look like photos of drawings from books

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, By B.h. Mayer certificate_of_authenticity Grenadier Guards(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Stahlhelm bearing a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened integral catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim, measuring 36. 65 mm (w) x