It sits firmly within a nickel-silver crossguard
and the dagger completes with a round pommel which bears raised oak leaves around the outer circumference
Ferdinand I and Carol II)
measuring 10 cm (w) x 34 cm (l) in its unstitched condition
maker marked “Hermann Haseaus” on obverse
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by Friedrich Orth visually-hidden It sits firmly within a(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, 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 raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an oval baseplate, maker marked with LDO code L 14 for Friedrich Orth, Vienna, measuring