Germany, Imperial. A Shooting Federation (Dsb) Membership Badge, Large Version, By L. Christian Lauer certificate_of_authenticity and Third Grade for counselors

and Third Grade for counselors of the first rank

the case missing its raised platform with the medal beds for the badge and breast star

only very small hairline cracks

Footnote: Very little is known about the lives of both Heinz-Günther and Hans-Ulrich von Zabiensky

the British having organized this sport on a national level since before WWI

Germany, Imperial. A Shooting Federation (Dsb) Membership Badge, Large Version, By L. Christian Lauer certificate_of_authenticity and Third Grade for counselors(Deutscher Schtzenbund Mitgliedsabzeichen, Gro). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, vertical pinback, the obverse consisting of a black enameled German national eagle clutching a white enameled target, topped by a German state crown and flanked by oak leaves, above a red enameled banner bearing an inscription of DEUTSCHER SCHTZENBUND (GERMAN SHOOTING FEDERATION), the reverse maker marked L. CHR. LAUER, NRNBERG BERLIN, measuring