Germany, Luftwaffe. A Marksmanship Landyard, Grade One Newly Listed illustrating nineteen soldiers

illustrating nineteen soldiers

1917-1918) (silver

engraver marked "Borrel" on the obverse

ornate suspension

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Marksmanship Landyard, Grade One Newly Listed illustrating nineteen soldiers(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,