A Fine Silver Grade Wound Badge By Carl Wild With Original Packet Of Issue Auction fronted by a brown enamelled

fronted by a brown enamelled "N"

author of "The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross" who states that "this cross is an actual award cross which was worn during the war

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He was awarded the SS Honour Ring and Sword

1917: "Deeply regret inform you Four nine naught two six three Pte

A Fine Silver Grade Wound Badge By Carl Wild With Original Packet Of Issue Auction fronted by a brown enamelledThis is a fine quality manufacture silver grade wound badge; manufactured in silvered zink; vertical pinback; maker marked 107 (Carl Wild, Hamburg); measuring 44 mm x 36 mm; weighing 24. 9 grams; silvering about 60% intact mostly worn off on the left side. Original packet of issue; the obverse marked Verwundeten Abzeichen Silver (Wound Badge Silver); the reverse maker marked Carl Wild, Metallwarenfabrik, Hamburg 24; measuring 92 mm x 62 mm; overall