Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, with Case and Stick Pin Miniature, by the Vienna Mint Auction the maker's name and part

the maker's name and part of "STERLING" scratched out on the reverse

golden Paulownia flower details

probably an infantry unit

its purported author

and finely produced in two sections of stamped brass

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, with Case and Stick Pin Miniature, by the Vienna Mint Auction the maker's name and part(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold mit Etui und Anstecknadel). 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 vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by the Vienna Mint,