Germany, Third Reich. A Deutsche Bank 25-Year Long Service Award in Silver, with Case, to Wilhelm Stüve consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 79x126mm

measuring 79x126mm

maker marked and dated "AH 1287" (1870) on the reverse cartouche

In the rank of Brigadier General

the green enamels on the laurel bushels mostly lost through time

1818 and awarded to troops and officers from Brunswick who participated in the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo

Germany, Third Reich. A Deutsche Bank 25-Year Long Service Award in Silver, with Case, to Wilhelm Stüve consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 79x126mm(Deutsche Bank Dienstauszeichnung in Silber mit Etui). Constructed of silver, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a banner bearing an engraved recipients name of WILHELM STVE, surrounding a central raised inscription of FR 25 JHRIGE TREUE MITARBEIT (FOR 25 YEARS OF LOYAL EMPLOYMENT), situated above dates 1914 1939 and below a mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised and ribbed German national