Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac chipping evident in the white

chipping evident in the white enamels on the tips of two star points

He was killed in action on March 4

this is the machine embroidered "double swastika" on the black wool base

the cross is topped by a Hanoverian lion connected to a partially enamelled crown and green-enamelled laurel branches

Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac chipping evident in the white(Reichsnhrstand Ehrenzeichen fr 40 Jahre Treue Dienste). Constructed of feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsnhrstand (RNST) insignia in the form of a German national eagle perched on top of a pedestal overlaid by an inscription of BLUT UND BODEN (BLOOD AND SOIL) and a mobile swastika defaced by a sword and wheat stalk, situated above a number 40 and inscription of REICHSNHRSTAND, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a