Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Province of China 1909 in Birmingham

1909 in Birmingham

Incorporating seventeen ribbons

reading “42

with old tattered ribbon

measuring 137 mm x 205 mm)

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Province of China 1909 in Birmingham(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