Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, Women’s Issue GTRexclude with its mint paper backer

with its mint paper backer

the dagger measuring 382 mm in length overall

two Purple Heart Box End Panels: one inscribed "METAL ARTS CO

" Thirty-six years after he left the Army

Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, Women’s Issue GTRexclude with its mint paper backer(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst, I. Klasse fr Frauen). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, on loop for suspension from a period replacement ribbon, consisting of a double sided oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within wheat stalks, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IM