Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years GTRexclude All suspended from a 145

All suspended from a 145 mm-long zink bar with a horizontal pinback and field-grey wool reverse liner

vertical pinback (repaired)

and ending in an Austrian knot reaching to the bottom of the skirt

he was transferred to the 5th Reserve Battalion at Bramshott on January 4

An example of a well preserved Third Reich period American sympathizer pocket knife

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years GTRexclude All suspended from a 145(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