Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, III Class for 10 Years with Case, by Förster & Barth Hold indicating manufacture by Clemens Wagner

indicating manufacture by Clemens Wagner

measuring 96 mm (w) x 37 mm (h)

all hand worked silver bullion wire with lettering "VIRTUS NOBILI TAT" on the blue satin centrepiece

obverse depicts a white maltese cross surrounded by a laurel wreath and surmounting eagle

Footnote: Frederick Russell Britchfield was born on September 5

Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, III Class for 10 Years with Case, by Förster & Barth Hold indicating manufacture by Clemens Wagner(Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP III. Klasse fr 10 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 2 April 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of a light bronzed alloy, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms and ribbed borders, joined through the quadrants by stylized rays, the obverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the