Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service 40-Year Long Service Award, with Case and Miniature, by Deschler & Sohn Auction the reverse revealing a rigid

the reverse revealing a rigid white cotton twill underlay bearing a handwritten inscription indicating that the flag was retrieved by an Allied serviceman in France in 1944

and after securing the survivor into the Stokes litter

The bottom is stamped with a silver zolotnik mark of 84 for 875 silver content

document presents two folding creases

indistinguishable maker's mark on the ring

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service 40-Year Long Service Award, with Case and Miniature, by Deschler & Sohn Auction the reverse revealing a rigid(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen I. Klasse fr 40 Jahre, mit Miniatur und Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with 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 reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE), unmarked,