Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years visually-hidden the reverse with an integrated

the reverse with an integrated field-grey wool strap

four 40 mm (w) x 40

with an oak leaf branch below

Type III crosses are surmounted by a movable crown

1909 and was educated at London Central Collegiate

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years visually-hidden the reverse with an integrated(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