Germany, Ss. A 4-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Archive This particular buckle is illustrated

This particular buckle is illustrated on page 491 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

and a Commemorative Sudetenland medal

” and marked “G

and Tie Clip (two-piece silver with red

Knowles with a strength of 32 officers and 807 other ranks

Germany, Ss. A 4-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Archive This particular buckle is illustratedA texbook example of a SS 4 Year Long Service Award (SS Dienstauszeichnung); in blackened bronze; unmarked, but these medals were produced exclusively by Deschler & Sohn of Munich and Lorenz of Unterreichenbach; exquisite manufacturing quality with very fine details; the obverse bearing the standard SS runes within an open ended oak leaf wreath with ribbons on the bottom of the wreath; the reverse inscribed Fr Treue Dienste in der SS (For Loyal