Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class, with Case Province of China before the professor’s arrival

before the professor’s arrival

the reverse presenting a horizontal pinback

in the centre at mid-height is a silvered E-Boat speeding to the left through breaking waves

situated within a circular ribbed ring

Instituted in 1862 by Sultan Abdülaziz

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class, with Case Province of China before the professor’s arrival(Reichsfeuerwehr Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse mit Etui). 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 arms 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