Germany, Third Reich. A 1942 Tyrolean Pistol Marksmanship Gau Champion’s Badge, By Carl Poellath United Republic of each constructed of black doeskin

each constructed of black doeskin wool and trimmed with twisted and rolled silver aluminum piping and bearing a machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire oak leaf and acorns

in golden-yellow machine embroidery depicting a sawfish

the obverse centre presents the Roman numeral X (10)

was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (Commonwealth Gazette 22 September 1921)

Germany, Third Reich. A 1942 Tyrolean Pistol Marksmanship Gau Champion’s Badge, By Carl Poellath United Republic of each constructed of black doeskin(Standschtzenverband Tirol Vorarlberg Leistungsabzeichen 1942 fr Pistole). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, horizontal pinback, the obverse consisting of a circular green enameled oak leaf wreath, surrounding a pebbled gilt disc, bearing a red enameled Tirolean eagle clutching a white enameled bullseye target bearing a mobile swastika, flanked by a date of 1942 and above an inscription of PISTOLE, the reverse maker marked C.