Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Rudolf Souval Auction achieving the ranks of Sergeant

achieving the ranks of Sergeant and Flight Sergeant

unmarked and bears a horizontal pinback

which bears two bands of silver aluminum wire piping

President Roosevelt had asked Joseph Stalin

reverse maker marked "WALGO

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Rudolf Souval Auction achieving the ranks of Sergeant(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central 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 36. 64 mm (w) x 44. 17 mm (h), weighing 7. 4 grams, accompanied by its period