Germany, RAD. A Rare and Mint Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, Women’s Issue Auction red wool backers

red wool backers

The interior is fully encompassed by a multi-piece khaki-tan rayon liner

with less than one hundred issued

maker marked “26” for B

Germany, RAD. A Rare and Mint Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, Women’s Issue Auction red wool backers(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre Frauen). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded tombak, on loop for suspension from its period original bow tie ribbon, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a mobile swastika flanked by wheat stalks, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IM REICHSARBEITSDIENST (FOR FAITHFUL