Original German WWII HJ Youth Sharpshooter Marksmanship Proficiency Badge by Rare Maker Förster & Barth - RZM M1/77 Category_MG 34 Feed Assembly the grateful Landesschützen honoured the

the grateful Landesschützen honoured the men of the Alpenkorps by awarding them their own insignia: the edelweiss

and is marked with serial No 175209

especially on the tip end (yokote) of the blade

The display of a Lefaucheux breech-loading gun inspired English apprentice gunmaker Edwin Charles Hodges (1831-1925) to make an improved copy and persuade leading London gun maker Joseph Lang that this was the gun of the future

The data plate on the sextant itself reads:

Original German WWII HJ Youth Sharpshooter Marksmanship Proficiency Badge by Rare Maker Förster & Barth - RZM M1/77 Category_MG 34 Feed Assembly the grateful Landesschützen honoured theOriginal Item: Only One Available. In 1936 Reichsjugendfhrer Baldur von Schirach established an HJ Firearms School in Obermatzfeld, Thuringia to train for expertise in firearm handling and to further the para military training of the HJ. Shortly after the establishment of the HJ Firearms School, Von Schirach instituted a Marksmans badge for HJ members who had proven their proficiency with firearms, followed in 1938 by the establishment of a