Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Silver Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern, Hohl Verbödet Variant Democratic Republic of the A multi-piece black rayon liner

A multi-piece black rayon liner encompasses the interior and transitions into a pinstripe design through the arms

The front is completed by a vertical row of eight silver gilt pebbled buttons on the right side

inclusive of the wingnut screwback on the reverse

the interior bearing a handwritten dedication to “Yuri Vasilievich Yandovsky”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Silver Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern, Hohl Verbödet Variant Democratic Republic of the A multi-piece black rayon liner(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber 1. Form). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel wreath with scalloped edges, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and narrow flattened pinback meeting a flattened angular catch, unmarked but demonstrating all of the hallmarks of an early Hohl Verbdet, measuring 38. 50 mm (w) x