Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Archive four are maker marked ""Drago

four are maker marked ""Drago Paris""

on original triangular civil ribbon with hook and eye

The document is signed in pen by Vice Admiral of the United States Navy

in bronze (previously cleaned)

Early in 1944

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years Archive four are maker marked ""Drago(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black enameled swastika, the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised