Germany, Third Reich. A Mg Proficiency First Place Table Medal, C.1936 Auction Archive each with 16 pages in

each with 16 pages in black ink

with its period-original cornflower-blue ribbon

The recipient is Chief Constable Walter Krüger from Cologne

During the Battle of Narva in the summer of 1944 he single-handedly destroyed seven (other sources claim eleven) tanks in a Russian attack

the obverse presents a soldier’s head wearing a steel helmet

Germany, Third Reich. A Mg Proficiency First Place Table Medal, C.1936 Auction Archive each with 16 pages in(Schieauszeichnungen). A Maschinengewehr First Prize table medal of the 11th Artillery Regiment, in gilt bronze; the obverse depicting a MG marksman, the reverse inscribed Preisrichten Art. Regt. 11 1936 1. Preis, bordered by a wreath of laurel leaves, maker marked on obverse with initials EF, measuring 50. 38 mm in diameter; weighing 50. 8 grams, and in near extremely fine condition..