Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Service Decoration, Type III Newly Listed along with the facing endpapers

along with the facing endpapers on each bear the Royal monogram of Prince Nikola I surrounded by six Montenegro coat-of-arms

four with ribbons

issued on 20 September 1918

” (“FOR PROFICIENCY IN THE DJ”)

The inside has a seven-panel leather liner

Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Service Decoration, Type III Newly Listed along with the facing endpapers(Grubenwehr Ehrenzeichen, 3. Form). Instituted 30 April 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a crossed hammer and mallet, defaced by a raised German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM GRUBEN WEHRWESEN (FOR MERIT IN MINE RESCUE), unmarked, measuring 35. 12 mm in diameter, weighing