A Second War Black Grade Wound Badge - In stamped patinated steel
around a central black mobile swastika
hallmarked with a fasces guarantee mark on the ring therefore dating the original body of the order to pre-1809 from the First Empire
Suspended from a medal bar via a non-combatant’s Iron Cross 1914 Second Class ribbon
where he entered the Design Branch of the Royal Canadian Engineers
France. Histoire Des Ordres De Chevalerie Et Des Distinctions Honorifiques En France, By F.f. Steenackers, 1867 Auction Archive A Second War Black Grade(Histoire des ordres de chevalerie et des distinctions honorifiques en France). Histoire des ordres de chevalerie et des distinctions honorifiques en France (History of Orders of Knighthood and Honours in France), by Franois Frdric Steenackers, published in Paris in 1867 by Librairie internationale, in hardcover, with a golden monogram on the obverse and reverse, containing 375 pages, measuring 24 cm (w) x 30. 5 cm (h), and in extremely fine