Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint Black Grade Wound Badge, With Case Newly Listed the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the

the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences

dated “14 Martie 1881” (“14 March 1881”)

the Decoration was reorganized into five classes and the silver medal became the 3rd Class award

with its period original ribbon featuring a horizontal pinback sewn onto the reverse

leather tab with a smooth finished reddish-brown upper stitched in place on the underside at the right end

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint Black Grade Wound Badge, With Case Newly Listed the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the(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 a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 36. 72 mm (w) x 44. 10 mm (h), weighing 7. 3 gram, accompanied by