Germany, Third Reich. A Mint Civil Service 40-Year Faithful Service Award, by Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed retaining an original label

retaining an original label

with raised oak leaf designs on both sides of the tip

Cross - "Regia Aeronautica in Africa Orientale Italiana" (AOI = Italian East Africa)

the body of the book has started to come apart from the spine

1875: Of extremely high quality in gold with beautifully executed red enamels

Germany, Third Reich. A Mint Civil Service 40-Year Faithful Service Award, by Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed retaining an original label(Treudienst Ehrenzeichen I. Klasse fr 40 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1942 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black enameled swastika, the reverse bearing a central inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE (FOR FAITHFUL