Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service 40-Year Long Service Award, with Case and Miniature, by Deschler & Sohn Auction document presents two folding creases

document presents two folding creases

later attending Earlham College in Richmond and Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware

and after securing the survivor into the Stokes litter

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

signs of wear and age on the silver borders of the cross arms

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service 40-Year Long Service Award, with Case and Miniature, by Deschler & Sohn Auction document presents two folding creases(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,