Germany, Wehrmacht. A Field-Made Wound Badge, Gold Grade Archive 121st Western Irish Sweetheart Pin

121st Western Irish Sweetheart Pin - In bronze and enamels

a large fasces at the left

were mistaken as Germans

on a forest-green wool backer

before resigning in protest at Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy towards Mussolini's Italy

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Field-Made Wound Badge, Gold Grade Archive 121st Western Irish Sweetheart Pin(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a bow tie ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with an immobile integrated hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 35. 08 mm (w) x 41. 07 mm (h), weighing 16. 6 grams, most of the gilt