Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Auction reverse with an open-ended wreath

reverse with an open-ended wreath of laurel leaves

Naming has been shaved and re-engraved in large capitals

Spanish War Veterans Medal 1898-1902: in bronze

he left for the 3rd Entrenchment Battalion in the field on January 20

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Auction reverse with an open-ended wreath(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