Germany, Wehrmaht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, First Pattern Buy Now Private First Class Fay E

Private First Class Fay E

with olive-drab paint and brown leather tab (tab is maker marked and dated 1942)

a Luftwaffe Warrant Officer Artificer sleeve badge

5 mm (h-inclusive of silver gilt suspension)

the exterior wrapped in light brown leather and embossed with the image of the Mayflower (the ship that famously transported the first English Puritans

Germany, Wehrmaht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade, First Pattern Buy Now Private First Class Fay E(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped outer 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 crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 62 mm (w) x 42. 90 mm (h), weighing 12. 4