Germany, Third Reich. A Border Protection Long Service Cross, With Miniature Archive extremey fine

extremey fine

edge nicks on the latter two

very good quality with crisp details

flanked by bows of battleships ploughing through high seas

A silver cross pattee with red and white enameled arms

Germany, Third Reich. A Border Protection Long Service Cross, With Miniature Archive extremey fine(Zollgrenzschutz Dienstauszeichnung mit Miniatur). Instituted 17 February 1939. (1939 1944). Co747n1structed of bronze, on loop for suspension from a replacement ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a raised German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, within a laurel wreath, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IM ZOLLGRENZSCHUTZ (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN BORDER PROTECTION),