Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Province of China engraved with the image of

engraved with the image of a partisan bearing a rifle

overlaid by Frey’s handwritten signature in blue ink

measuring 21 cm (w) x 25

demonstrating moderate surface oxidation throughout the core

measuring 20 mm (w) x 41 mm (h)

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Province of China engraved with the image of(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 silvered Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular and gilded 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