Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Bronze Grade, With Case United Republic of "33" (maker marked H

"33" (maker marked H

each is mounted to a five-sided brass suspension and conjoined

The painful and weak right hand caused by the shrapnel wound during his encounter at Bellewaerde in May 1915 was a permanent handicap

dual horizontal pinbacks

Constructed of silver aluminum bullion wire with black braided thread

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Bronze Grade, With Case United Republic of "33" (maker marked H(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel 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. 53 mm (w) x 44. 15 mm (h), weighing 31. 5 grams, accompanied by its period original presentation case,