Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Newly Listed diphtheria

diphtheria

reverse inscribed in Russian "For Zeal"

reverse centrepiece inscribed "1840

with pin assembly having been period repaired/re-affixed

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Newly Listed diphtheria(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension with 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