Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards Auction and 20-Year Special Grades

and 20-Year Special Grades

He was only the 4th recipient of this award

One clasp: Taku Forts 1860

Probably a pattern/trial piece

the obverse depicting a Stahlhelms (Steel Helmets) on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field within oval laurel branch wreaths

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards Auction and 20-Year Special Grades(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 19 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 6 grams, in near mint condition. 2. A Civil Service 25