Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Heinrich Wander Auction Archive (Reichs-Musiktage 1939 Einladung)

(Reichs-Musiktage 1939 Einladung)

An extremely well-preserved example of a Commander’s Cross of the Albrecht Order

is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the USSR Academy of Sciences and later the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

cracking and wear from active use on the leather sweatband

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Heinrich Wander Auction Archive (Reichs-Musiktage 1939 Einladung)(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, 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. 49 mm (w) x 44. 30 mm (h), weighing 6. 7 grams, accompanied by its period original package of issue, constructed of light brown paper