Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, III Class for 12 Years Auction Archive measuring 79

measuring 79

58mm (w) x 108

Instituted 16 September 1886 by Duke Ernst I

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Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, III Class for 12 Years Auction Archive measuring 79(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst, III. Klasse fr 12 Jahre). Constructed of a silvered alloy, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a double sided oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Reicharbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service RAD) insignia in the form of a shovel head overlaid by a mobile swastika and flanked by wheat stalks, the