Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by B.H. Mayer Hold 5 - Meritorious Service Decorations

5 - Meritorious Service Decorations

London Gazette 9 February 1886 (Ginnis)

It has no connection with the Bridgettine Order founded by the Fourteenth Century Saint Brigitta of Sweden and appears to have been a private initiative

with an assortment of attachments including lugs and sliders

Bronze fixtures are secured in place with dual side rivets at both the tip and throat

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by B.H. Mayer Hold 5 - Meritorious Service Decorations(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded tombak, 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 an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting an integral catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim, with the number 6 correctly sitting