Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Auction one with a "JAPAN" clasp

one with a "JAPAN" clasp

measuring 140 mm (w) x 25 mm (h)

1914 and after little more than one year in England

inscribed below "UKAZOM / PREDSEDNIKA FEDERATIVNE NARODNE REPUBLIKE JUGOSLAVIJE JOSIPA BROZA TITA BROJ / 134 OD 26 decembra 1960 GODINE / za naročite zasluge stečene na radu od značaja za socijalistički zazvitak zemlje

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Auction one with a "JAPAN" clasp(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