Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, With Award Document To Fritz Mengel GTRexclude Gloucester

Gloucester

In solid gold

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, With Award Document To Fritz Mengel GTRexclude Gloucester(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz mit Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 36. 67 mm (w) x 44. 00 mm (h), weighing 12. 1 grams, accompanied by its original