Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade Auction There is some age-appropriate material

There is some age-appropriate material fatigue evident to both the wool and leather features

Instituted 1459 by Pope Pius II

It is sometimes anachronistically referred to by its former name of Zaire

Footnote: The Order of the Rising Sun is a Japanese order

23 mm x 45

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade Auction There is some age-appropriate material(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pin meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 64 mm (w) x 43. 43 mm (h), weighing 12. 5 grams, some loss of finish evident,