Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, III Class for 10 Years with Period Case, by Paul Meybauer Auction blue or black inks

blue or black inks

an unusual embroidered variant of an armband issued to Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) personnel attached to regular police beginning on 22 February 1933 and disbanded the following summer

with a dead French soldier at the feet of the horse

Inset into the obverse of the handle are three bronze acorns

the body marked "v

Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, III Class for 10 Years with Period Case, by Paul Meybauer Auction blue or black inks(Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP, III. Klasse fr 10 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 2 April 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of a bronzed aluminum alloy, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with its arms joined through the quadrants by stylized rays, the obverse overlaid by a circular oak leaf wreath bearing a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse overlaid by a circular oak