the creamy colored celluloid-over-wood grip exhibits minor surface wear with no visible cracks or chips
in the mastery of new combat equipment and other services associated with strengthening the defensive might of the USSR
inventions
A fine quality early war manufacture second war German silver grade “Verwundetenabzeichen”
As stated on the dust jacket: "This book comprises a factual history of the famous Lee-Enfield rifle and its forebears
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Silver Grade Wound Badge, By B.h. Mayer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the creamy colored celluloid-over-wood grip(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around 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, measuring 36. 57 mm (w) x 43. 96