Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Republic of certified by the facsimile signature

certified by the facsimile signature of AH and handwritten signature of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring

was easily fatigued

in the field on 22 December 1941

in uniform and wearing an Officer’s Bergmütze (Mountain Cap) and War Merit Cross II Class ribbon

outside edge trimmed in angled black embroidered cord

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Republic of certified by the facsimile signature(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