Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Steinhauer & Lück visually-hidden Constructed of multi-coloured machine embroidery

Constructed of multi-coloured machine embroidery on a white rayon backer

A mint “Ehrenkreuz des Weltkriegs 1914/18”

the red dye incorporating the right side of the yellow felt and violet embroidery

the reverse bears a single vertical pin with engraved Cyrillic lettering

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Steinhauer & Lück visually-hidden Constructed of multi-coloured machine embroidery(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 a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Steinhauer & Lck,