Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, III Class for 10 Years, Early Aluminum Variant with Ribbon Bar by Paul Meybauer Auction Archive A Military and Civil Merit

A Military and Civil Merit Order of Nassau

unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of the widely-documented B

A third reich period WHW (Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes/Winter Relief of the German People) Saar region donation badge

a worn example with light greenish oxidation on the frame and with the black paint worn off on the date “1914”

within a ring of blue enamel bearing a gilt inscription of “FÜR TREUE UND VERDIENST” (“FOR LOYALTY AND MERIT”) joined together at the bottom by laurel branches

Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, III Class for 10 Years, Early Aluminum Variant with Ribbon Bar by Paul Meybauer Auction Archive A Military and Civil Merit(Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP, III. Klasse fr 10 Jahre mit Bandschnalle). Constructed of bronzed aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with ribbed and gently pebbled arms 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 reverse bearing a central circular oak leaf