Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class Auction gilt loss on obverse centrepiece

gilt loss on obverse centrepiece

constructed of a woven bamboo frame with an exterior tan-coloured canvas twill liner

Footnote: This unmarked variation is well described on page 183 of Carsten Baldes

Gold (hallmarked on reverse) with twenty-four embedded old European cut natural diamonds surrounding the red

24 May 1879"

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class Auction gilt loss on obverse centrepiece(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