Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Auction measuring 140 mm (w) x

measuring 140 mm (w) x 25 mm (h)

1914 and after little more than one year in England

The centre of the title bears a 1938-1941 period Totenkopf insignia of identical construction

the other with a horizontal pinback and push pin

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Auction measuring 140 mm (w) x(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black enameled swastika, the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR