Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by B.H. Mayer Archive Footnote: Albert Gottfried Friedrich Stahl

Footnote: Albert Gottfried Friedrich Stahl was born on 14 June 1889 in Darmstadt

meticulously uniform removed with only light soiling from wear and age

1943 the 9th Army along with Fraatz’s division was to be the northern pincer at the battle of Kursk

and the scabbard measures 81

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by B.H. Mayer Archive Footnote: Albert Gottfried Friedrich Stahl(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 an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting an integral catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim, with the number 6 correctly sitting