Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 6 mm inclusive

6 mm inclusive

This pair measures approximately 42 cm across the waist (seam to seam)

atop the horizontal flowers of oak and laurel branches

the reverse presents the words THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION 1914-1919 in four lines

the 3 o’clock arm reads “1920” and the 6 o’clock arm reads “23 III”

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 6 mm inclusive(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 Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular 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 inscription of FR