Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Awards Hold The reverse lists his grades

The reverse lists his grades

Footnote: The SS long service awards were first introduced by Adolf Hitler on january 30

The blade is diamond shaped with flattened top and bottom and exhibits scratches common to extraction and return to the scabbard on both sides of the blade

Silver Grade after twenty years and Bronze Grade after fifteen years detachment command

and Breast Star - silver gilt with red enamel centerpiece bearing gilded torch and five white enamel arms between smooth silver rays

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Awards Hold The reverse lists his grades(Auszeichnungen). A pair of awards, including: 1 A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Rudolf