Germany, Third Reich. A 1943 Master Marksman’s Badge certificate_of_authenticity the top of the handle

the top of the handle marked “SS/T” and “J

where an award badge once existed but has been lost to time

including two studio portraits of a Heer Officer wearing a Close Combat Clasp

constructed of heavily fire-gilded bronze

Germany, Third Reich. A 1943 Master Marksman’s Badge certificate_of_authenticity the top of the handle(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,