Germany, Ss. A Ss Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years Auction Archive with packets of issue)

with packets of issue)

the edge marked with a silver content number of “1000” and “FEIN” indicting pure silver

A WWI War Medal to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force - (74359 PTE

surrounded by the inscription "MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE G

Germany, Ss. A Ss Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years Auction Archive with packets of issue)(SS Dienstauszeichnung, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1941). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension, consisting of a swastika with ribbed arms, the obverse overlaid with dual central Sig runes, within a circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse with a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked, measuring 37. 50 mm (w) x 42. 09 mm (h), weighing 24. 7 grams, age