Germany, Ss. A 4-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Hold on a bow ribbon featuring

on a bow ribbon featuring a sewn-on horizontal pinback (two of the four stitches severed)

near mint condition with the gilt being extremely well preserved

marked "P A"

screw back with chain

the announcement appearing in the Second Supplement to the London Gazette 30404 of Tuesday

Germany, Ss. A 4-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Hold on a bow ribbon featuringA 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