Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Friedrich Orth Auction early manufacture “Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes”

early manufacture “Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes” by a desired maker

with which he would participate in the attack on Russia in the summer of 1941

Attached to the canister's left side are two metal loops which house a khaki canvas shoulder strap

surviving NWMP recipients were each granted $300

inclusive of sword and laurel suspension 56

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Friedrich Orth Auction early manufacture “Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes”(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, 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 crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L14 for Friedrich Orth, Vienna, measuring 36. 17 mm (w) x 43. 91 mm (h), weighing