Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by the Vienna Mint GTRexclude 1917 in Koolkerke

1917 in Koolkerke

A pair of Civil Service Long Service Decorations

This particular belt with buckle is illustrated in black and white on page 519 and in colour on page 646 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

A 1933 National Socialist Factory Cell Organization/Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation (NSBO) Gau Köln-Aachen Kongress badge

it would come to symbolize the triumph of good over evil (with the snake sometimes representative of the serpent in the Garden of Eden)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by the Vienna Mint GTRexclude 1917 in Koolkerke(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 clip hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by the Vienna Mint, measuring 36. 66 mm (w) x 44.