Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, III Class for 10 Years, Heavy Version consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 40mm(w) x 42mm(h)

40mm(w) x 42mm(h)

9 cm (w) x 30

marker marked "MV"

reverse inscribed XX ANIVERSARIO FAR 1977 [20th Anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces

It is signed by Heinz Harmel on January 6th

Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, III Class for 10 Years, Heavy Version consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 40mm(w) x 42mm(h)(Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP III. Klasse fr 10 Jahre). Instituted 2 April 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with ribbed arms joined through the quadrants by stylized rays, the obverse overlaid by a circular oak leaf wreath bearing a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse overlaid by a circular oak leaf wreath surrounding