Germany, Ss. A Marksmanship Sharpshooter Badge Newly Listed and the First War Black

and the First War Black Wound Badge

An early badge owned and worn by perhaps one of the first Luftwaffe Casualties of operations in France

the ring measuring 20

For this effort

with a gray wool backer and a horizontal pinback

Germany, Ss. A Marksmanship Sharpshooter Badge Newly Listed and the First War Black(SS Scharfschtzenabzeichen). Constructed of black wool, the obverse bearing a central machine embroidered silver aluminum wire bullseye target set within a semi circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse retaining a fully intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label bearing a makers code of A4 78 and a secondary code of 192671, measuring 52 mm (w) x 75 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.