Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern, by Otto Schickle Auction Archive his cap with the spread-winged

his cap with the spread-winged eagle and swastika insignia on the peak and the skull insignia on the front below

It is crafted out of a sheet of molybdenum steel (magnetic)

Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps - Silver-plated

measuring 80 x22 mm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern, by Otto Schickle Auction Archive his cap with the spread-winged(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, 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 wide crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Otto