Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac constructed of a heavy card

constructed of a heavy card stock frame with a faux black leather exterior and silvered Maltese Cross embossed onto the lid

stating that he was with an active militia

PONSCARME" on the reverse

and his mother was Wilhelmina

Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac constructed of a heavy card(Reichsnhrstand Ehrenzeichen fr 40 Jahre Treue Dienste). Constructed of feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsnhrstand (RNST) insignia in the form of a German national eagle perched on top of a pedestal overlaid by an inscription of BLUT UND BODEN (BLOOD AND SOIL) and a mobile swastika defaced by a sword and wheat stalk, situated above a number 40 and inscription of REICHSNHRSTAND, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a