Schutzenschnur Plakette

[Kondor]

I just picked this up, which leads to the question about how these were secured to the lanyard. I looked up in the Schnur thread and do notice that several of them were secures by thread. Did they have prongs on the reverse or were they all sewn down.

[Fred Green]

Hello Jack,

I picked up one this summer also without a backing cloth. There were no pins that I could see. It appears that they were sewn on.

Fred

[km-spain]

Helo, agree with Freed, never seen on of these with pins, usually they were sewn directly on the rosette with golden thread

[Kondor]

Thanks guys. This is as close as I have gotten to this grade of Schnur of the KM I may add it to my Deutschland Feuerwerker display as a separate piece, not on the Schnur!

[Norm F]

Personally, I think that great display is better without the Level 4 medallion. The problem is this these things are quite common separately and unused, and are often sewed onto post-war lanyards to make up a "level 4 wartime" award.

A true worn Level 4 Schützenschnur is very rare since they were discontinued early in the war, and probably no one would bother hanging around target practise long enough to get a gold acorn and plakette once there was a war going on!

Best regards,
---Norm