Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Auction Archive a Border Troops Merit Badge

a Border Troops Merit Badge

Militarpss (duplicate) issued in 1870

The blade sits securely within a one-piece magnetic metal hilt with a curved guard and flattened

surface rust evident on the IC

Footnote: Jean Marc GUERTIN was born June 5th 1926 and served with the 22nd Royal Regiment in Korea

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Auction Archive a Border Troops Merit Badge(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 39. 03 mm (w) x 43. 79 mm (h), weighing 13. 1 grams, with