Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive obverse bearing a right facing

obverse bearing a right facing portrait of King Umberto I

fine quality example in BeVo style embroidery in grey treadinging of the word “Wiking” on a black embroidered background

This work was funded by Canadian Life Insurance companies and Federal Public Health Research Grants

It includes three black and white photographs (as the Frontispiece

plus a series of black and white photographs with taglines on a coated stock dispersed at various intervals throughout the book

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive obverse bearing a right facing(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded tombak, 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 clip hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 30 for the Vienna Mint, measuring 36. 32 mm (w) x 43. 84 mm