Germany, Third Reich. A Border Protection Long Service Cross, With Miniature Archive was hit four times by

was hit four times by torpedoes

A silver cross pattee with red and white enameled arms

extremey fine

91 mm x 146 mm each)

flanked by bows of battleships ploughing through high seas

Germany, Third Reich. A Border Protection Long Service Cross, With Miniature Archive was hit four times by(Zollgrenzschutz Dienstauszeichnung mit Miniatur). Instituted 17 February 1939. (1939 1944). Co747n1structed of bronze, on loop for suspension from a replacement ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a raised German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, within a laurel wreath, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IM ZOLLGRENZSCHUTZ (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN BORDER PROTECTION),