Germany, Third Reich. A Marksmanship Award Hold before being discharged to duty

before being discharged to duty on the 24th with no disability

1952 and nineteen days later

with crown suspension also with red enamels

a white enamel cross

Richard Robert and Kathleen Ellen

Germany, Third Reich. A Marksmanship Award Hold before being discharged to duty(Schtzenabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a pentagonal backplate with horizontal pinback, the obverse consisting of a radiant Cross Patte with ribbed arms joined through the quadrants by clusters of oak leaves, overlaid by a central bronzed medallion bearing a blackened German national eagle defaced by a mobile swastika, unmarked, measuring 52 mm (w) x 58 mm (h), in extremely