Germany, SS. A Long Service Award, IV Class for 4 Years, by Deschler & Sohn Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 14 March 1907

14 March 1907

while exhibiting the oxidation common to aging zinc

reading: Kriegsbeginn 22

on a period original full-length neck ribbon with horizontal octagonal thirteen star cravat pad sewn in place on what appears to be a period replacement neck ribbon

on a 47 mm pin

Germany, SS. A Long Service Award, IV Class for 4 Years, by Deschler & Sohn Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 14 March 1907(SS Dienstauszeichnung, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised swastika with ribbed arms, overlaid by central double Sig runes situated within a circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse with a raised number 4, overlaid by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked but