Germany, Luftwaffe. A Marksmanship Landyard, Grade One Newly Listed Some are pasted in place

Some are pasted in place

ornate suspension

1917-1918) (silver

surface rust on the roll bar and prongs

engraver marked "Borrel" on the obverse

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Marksmanship Landyard, Grade One Newly Listed Some are pasted in place(Luftwaffe Schtzenschnur). Constructed of thick, twisted, interwoven alternating bright silver bullion and bluish gray embroidery, braided, head of the lanyard with a 40 mm (w) x 49 mm (h) silvered zink badge displaying the Luftwaffe eagle, its talons gripping a swastika, the eagle framed by a wreath of oak leaves, large silver bullion adjustment knots at either end of the braiding, with a smaller silver bullion knot on the suspension loop, unmarked,