Germany, RAD. A Rare and Mint Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, Women’s Issue Republic of marked “Solingen Wald” (Solingen Forest)

marked “Solingen Wald” (Solingen Forest) on the reverse

FINKE BERLIN

1916 to February 15

In a translation of Livy’s History of Rome

A round aluminum alloy medal

Germany, RAD. A Rare and Mint Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, Women’s Issue Republic of marked “Solingen Wald” (Solingen Forest)(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre Frauen). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded tombak, on loop for suspension from its period original bow tie ribbon, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a mobile swastika flanked by wheat stalks, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IM REICHSARBEITSDIENST (FOR FAITHFUL