Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade Hold with a gilded bronze laurel

with a gilded bronze laurel wreath (war decoration) riveted to each arm

He was later became a member of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB)

These have a fairly crude look and the copies I have seen are better made than the originals in construction and design

reverse with central inscription of “FÜR LEISTUNGEN IN DER ZIEGENZUCHT” (“FOR MERIT IN GOAT BREEDNG”)

the bottom

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Black Grade Hold with a gilded bronze laurel(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 11 mm (w) x 45. 04 mm (h), in near mint condition.