Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years certificate_of_authenticity A 1935 Kreistag Düren badge

A 1935 Kreistag Düren badge

each constructed of black doeskin wool and trimmed with woven black thread and silver aluminum wire piping

000 former SS members that were still missing

an early example in extremely fine condition

however may have been affixed to uniform in some other ways

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years certificate_of_authenticity A 1935 Kreistag Düren badge(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black enameled swastika, the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR