Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Gold Grade, By The Vienna Mint Hold ” (BCM1124)

” (BCM1124)

He was a strong opponent of Olympic President Avery Brundage's amateur rules

the two lenses join across the bridge of the goggles by a small brown leather linking the two eye pieces together

serving with the 2nd Divisional Engineers

steel with gilt and brown enamels

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Gold Grade, By The Vienna Mint Hold ” (BCM1124)(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, 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, marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 30 for the Vienna Mint, measuring 36. 2 mm (w) x 43. 7 mm (h), worn example, in very fine condition.