Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac this is the machine embroidered

this is the machine embroidered "double swastika" on the black wool base

A presentation case for a Grand Cordon Breast Star of the Order of the Rising Sun

chipping evident in the white enamels on the tips of two star points

ten Shooting Badges

Copper-gilt version for Petty Officers

Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac this is the machine embroidered(Reichsnhrstand Ehrenzeichen fr 40 Jahre Treue Dienste). Constructed of feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsnhrstand (RNST) insignia in the form of a German national eagle perched on top of a pedestal overlaid by an inscription of BLUT UND BODEN (BLOOD AND SOIL) and a mobile swastika defaced by a sword and wheat stalk, situated above a number 40 and inscription of REICHSNHRSTAND, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a