Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Special Grade 50-Year Long Service Cross Archive wear spot evident on the

wear spot evident on the left reverse due to previous board mounting

Footnote: The immediate cause of the 1897 War was the question over the status of the Ottoman province of Crete

A 1938 NSDAP Kreistag Unterhaunus badge (26

In the counter attack

bearing dual machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire tresses

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Special Grade 50-Year Long Service Cross Archive wear spot evident on the(Treudienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze, 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 swastika, the 12 oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised