Original German WWII Medal and Insignia Lot Featuring Black Wound Badge and Sterbebild Death Card – 10 Items Original Items

Original Items: Only One Lot of 10 Available. This is a wonderful lot with a beautiful assortment of items. This is perfect for the younger collectors just starting out or the salty collectors wanted to add more items to their collection.

The items in this lot:
– Black Wound Badge: 1939 pattern, die stamped, magnetic sheet metal construction, hollow backed badge with a black wash. The badge is in the form of an embossed, vertically oval, laurel leaf wreath encompassing an embossed profile of an M35 pattern helmet with a high relief, canted, swas to the center, superimposed over crossed swords on a pebbled base field. The reverse of the badge is a mirror image of the obverse and has a crimped, soldered hinge, a thin, round, vertical pin and catch all intact.

– Bronze DRL Sports Badge by Wernstein: The badge retains almost all original color but unfortunately the pin catch is flattened

– KvK 2nd Class Without Swords: This medal is in unissued condition and retains all original color.

– Cockade With Separate “Bullseye”: The wreath portion is missing both top prongs and the bullseye appears to be unissued.

– Caritas “Tuet Gutes Allen” Donation Pin: Do Good All pin. The Caritas charity organization was created in 1897. In 1933, the NSDAP Party created the WHW and thus broke off their ties to the Caritas. However, the organization continued their charity work throughout the war.

– WHW “Tag Der Wehrmacht” Donation Pin: The pin has lost all silver wash on the front with most remaining on the reverse.

– “May Day” Tinnie: Abzeichen Tag der Arbeit 1935. Introduced in 1933, the NSDAP declared May 1st the “Day of National Work” as an official state holiday to celebrate laborers and the working classes.

– 1942 Kreistag Esch-Alzig Tinnie: Esch-an-der-Alzig is a commune with city status in south-western Luxembourg. It is the country’s second-most populous commune with a population of about 15,000 people in 1945. The town of Esch lies in the center of the commune.

– AH Bohemia and Moravia Stamp: The stamp is in a protective sleeve. This series of stamps were never issued out for use. Large stocks of these stamps fell into allied hands during the occupation with many being defaced or overprinted for local usage by postal officials.

– Sterbilder Paper Death Card: German death notices were issued as a remembrance to German soldiers who were killed during the war. Known in German as “Sterbebilder”, these paper cards show a photograph of the deceased soldier, usually in uniform, and contain some personal information. Since these cards were given as a prayer card at the soldier’s funeral, the reverse often depicts religious themes. This card is for Obergefreiter Johann Spindler who served with a Panzer Unit and lost his life on the Eastern Front on March 10, 1944 at 29 years old.

This is a lovely assortment of items that come ready for display!