Stamped Silver and Gold Wound Badges

WW2 version. No markings visible, the pin/catch assembly look the same as on a black version I have - has the paint been stripped on this one?

[Peter J.]

Stamped Gold Wound??

This one isn´t stripped down to brass-colour, but
actually painted in gold. Comments are appreciated.

Regards
Peter

[Frank Heukemes]

Hi guys,

We discussed these several times, most prominently in this thread. There never was and probably never will be a consensus. You either believe in these to be genuine pre 1945 or not.

The only fact we might be able to state is that these all started their life as a black wound badge in pre-finish state and were turned into a gold (or silver) grade. It could very well be that some were made that way pre-1945 but it was not an "official" version of the golden (or silver) wound badge.

Cheers, Frank