Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Heinrich Wander Newly Listed maker sticker reading “ Mayer

maker sticker reading “ Mayer & Wilhelm

BERLIN” and a maker’s marked of “JFS” for Josef Feix & Söhne

Kreissieger 1939

notable for being the first American class of oil-burning dreadnoughts

War Merit Cross 2nd

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Heinrich Wander Newly Listed maker sticker reading “ Mayer(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened magnetic metal, 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 vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 36. 62 mm (w) x 44. 42 mm (h), weighing 6. 7 grams, accompanied by its period original package of