Germany, Wehrmacht. An Owner-Attributed Black Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild GTRexclude and the Destroyer Tender (AD)

and the Destroyer Tender (AD) Dixie Class U

with the four panels of the frame slightly gapped due to shrinkage of the wood from age

bearing the inscription VIRIBUS UNITIS (STAND UNITED)

maker marked "SG" (Sebastian Garrard)

1916 in Innisfail

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Owner-Attributed Black Grade Wound Badge, By Carl Wild GTRexclude and the Destroyer Tender (AD)(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened bronze, 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 vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 107 for Carl Wild, Hamburg, measuring 36. 87 mm (w) x 44. 14 mm (h), weighing 13.