Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years visually-hidden RED RIVER 1870 (PTE

RED RIVER 1870 (PTE

Each tab is constructed of red wool

forty-eight pages plus cover

lugs intact on both badges

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years visually-hidden RED RIVER 1870 (PTE(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