Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by the Vienna Mint GTRexclude set on a 25 mm-long

set on a 25 mm-long magnetic metal core

in stamped gilt bronze horizontal pinback (repaired)

A 1934 Festspiele Giebelstadt 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)

Footnote: The Order of the Star of Jordan was instituted in July 1949 and awarded for military or civil merit

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by the Vienna Mint GTRexclude set on a 25 mm-long(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.