Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Special Grade 50-Year Long Service Cross certificate_of_authenticity with light wear to enamels

with light wear to enamels

impressed: SA 2591 H

heir to the Bourbon-Parma succession

the larger with a 39 mm long pin

surmounting a black rosette on the left side

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Special Grade 50-Year Long Service Cross certificate_of_authenticity with light wear to enamels(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