Germany, Third Reich. A Badge For Fire Brigade Service, By The Prussian Mint GTRexclude measuring 48 x 64mm

measuring 48 x 64mm

pinback hanger marked "EL ORO MILITARY JEWELER JOSE TUPAZ

under the bust

Footnote: This is a stick pin of one of the Heimat und Alarm Flakartillerie civil group

and soon drafted by the 2nd Battalion in the French theatre

Germany, Third Reich. A Badge For Fire Brigade Service, By The Prussian Mint GTRexclude measuring 48 x 64mm(Erinnerungszeichen Verdienste um das Feuerlschwesen). Instituted 21 December 1933 by Wilhelm Frick. (1934 1936 issue). Constructed of silver, the obverse with a central raised firefighter clutching a hose and blowing a horn, above a burning building, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE UM DAS FEUERLSCHWESEN (FOR MERIT IN THE FIRE BRIGADE), with a mobile swastika at the bottom, the reverse with a vertical pinback, maker marked PREUSS.