Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Special Grade 50-Year Long Service Cross certificate_of_authenticity Miniature in gilt and enamels

Miniature in gilt and enamels

surmounting a black rosette on the left side

His WWI Index Card indicates that he qualified for the 1914-15 Star

in large part

While still in France

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Special Grade 50-Year Long Service Cross certificate_of_authenticity Miniature in gilt and enamels(Treudienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal 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 swastika, the 12 oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised