Germany, Third Reich. An Exceptionally Rare Honour Badge for Members of the National Senate of Culture, by Deschler & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac situated above an inscription of

situated above an inscription of “VERNICHTUNG DES WELTFEINDES NO

two Ribbon Bars (one with the Shanghai Municipal Council Emergency Medal 1937 and the Shanghai Volunteer Corps Long Service Medal

in golden lacquered feinzink

with all German hands lost

Germany, Third Reich. An Exceptionally Rare Honour Badge for Members of the National Senate of Culture, by Deschler & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac situated above an inscription of(Ehrenzeichen des Reichskultursenat). Instituted 28 November 1936. Constructed of gilded silver with enamels, the obverse consisting of an oval disc with stylized rays surrounding the border, each bearing three striations, surrounding a central white enameled medallion bearing an engraved and gilded Reichskultursenate insignia in the form of a German national eagle perched on top of a column emanating from a mobile swastika, circumscribed by an