Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Principality. A Rare Fire Brigade Long Service Clasp Archive 64mm x 52mm

64mm x 52mm

the reverse bearing a raised inscription of “FÜR VERDIENST” (“FOR MERIT”)

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The coverage of the British pepperbox from the flintlock era until the turn of the 19th-20th century is a book within itself

Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Principality. A Rare Fire Brigade Long Service Clasp Archive 64mm x 52mm(Feuerwehr Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 11 June 1895 by Prince Karl Gnther. (1895 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, the obverse consistent of a rectangular plaque bearing a central Schwarzburg Rudolstadt coat of arms, flanked on the left by an intertwined hose and ropes and on the right by a firemans helmet above crossed axes, affixed to a square backer retaining an intact original ribbon, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened catch, unmarked,