Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, by the Vienna Mint GTRexclude in stamped gilt bronze horizontal

in stamped gilt bronze horizontal pinback (repaired)

This particular belt with buckle is illustrated in black and white on page 519 and in colour on page 646 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

set on a 25 mm-long magnetic metal core

A 1933 National Socialist Factory Cell Organization/Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation (NSBO) Gau Köln-Aachen Kongress badge

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 in stamped gilt bronze horizontal(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.