Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac notable contact marks to obverse

notable contact marks to obverse and reverse

exhibiting marks and black paint loss on the body

measuring 26 mm (w) x 67 mm (h) inclusive of its Spanish coat-of-arms

overlaid by a monogram and banner bearing an inscription of ‘MIT GOTT FÜR KOENIG UND VATERLAND” (“WITH GOD FOR KING AND FATHERLAND”)

cross in blue and white enamels

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac notable contact marks to obverse(Reichsfeuerwehr Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse). Instituted 22 June 1936 by Wilhelm Frick. (1936 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, consisting of a Geneva Cross with its ams joined through the quadrants by a circular ring bearing an obverse inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM FEUERLSCHWESEN (FOR MERIT IN FIRE FIGHTING), the obverse of the cross with white enameled arms