Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint Wehrmacht Sniper’s Badge, II Class

(Scharfschützenabzeichen). Instituted 20.8.1944. (1957 Issue). Constructed of a field-grey wool background with multi-coloured machine embroidery, obverse depicts a black eagle’s head rising out of oak leaves with a single acorn, within a twisted silver aluminum bullion wire thread oval, measuring 59 mm (w) x 73 mm (h), in unissued and mint condition.