Germany, Ss. A Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac mobile swastika

mobile swastika

This is a well preserved M43 Reichsarbeitsdienst EM/NCO’s Feldmütze

published in Paris in 1934 by Auguste Picard

constructed of a heavy card stock binding with a faux textured leather exterior liner

reverse maker marked with the RZM (Reichszeugmeisterei) insignia and maker marked "M4/38" (Richard Sieper & Söhne

Germany, Ss. A Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac mobile swastika(SS Dienstauszeichnung III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised swastika with ribbed arms, overlaid by central double Sig runes, set within a circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse bearing a raised number 8, overlaid by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked,