Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Type IV (1914-1916) Franz Joseph

Type IV (1914-1916) Franz Joseph (Tapferkeitsmedaille)

interior lid featuring label’s maker of C

Rue Daunou PARIS" on the inside lid

22 mm (w) x 53

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Type IV (1914-1916) Franz Joseph(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