Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class with Period Case, by Glaser & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac non-combatant issue

non-combatant issue

the reverse with a central Oldenburg coat of arms

Footnote: Robert W

6 cm (w) x 16 cm (h)

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class with Period Case, by Glaser & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac non-combatant issue(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