Germany, Third Reich. A 1943 Master Marksman’s Badge Hold with one of the tabs

with one of the tabs slightly coming off from its underside

In lovely openwork silver

flanked by a second NCO clearly wearing a German Cross

only one is from 1915

Witte spent the remainder of the war with the Kriegsmarine’s K-Verband (Small Combat Unit)

Germany, Third Reich. A 1943 Master Marksman’s Badge Hold with one of the tabs(Meisterschtzenabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, surrounding a central Tyrol style German national eagle clutching a bullseye target defaced by a mobile swastika, in turn situated above a banner bearing a raised inscription of MEISTERSCHTZE 1943 (MASTER MARKSMAN 1943), the reverse stamped with an issue number of 2068, with a horizontal pinback crimped within a rectangular plate, unmarked,