Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Copper-gilt version for Petty Officers

Copper-gilt version for Petty Officers

each graduate was issued with a certificate or a “license” (Brevet) of a General Staff officer that theoretically allowed him henceforth to serve in that structure

the cross is topped by a Hanoverian lion connected to a partially enamelled crown and green-enamelled laurel branches

He was killed in action on March 4

chipping evident in the white enamels on the tips of two star points

Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Copper-gilt version for Petty Officers(Reichsnhrstand Ehrenzeichen fr 40 Jahre Treue Dienste). Constructed of feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsnhrstand (RNST) insignia in the form of a German national eagle perched on top of a pedestal overlaid by an inscription of BLUT UND BODEN (BLOOD AND SOIL) and a mobile swastika defaced by a sword and wheat stalk, situated above a number 40 and inscription of REICHSNHRSTAND, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a