Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years visually-hidden stiff convex frame

stiff convex frame

A Long Service Medal with Luftwaffe eagle miniature

Promotion to machinist 3rd class

1940 in the rank of Oberleutnant

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years visually-hidden stiff convex frame(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