Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, Women’s Version Archive attached to XIXth (Saxon) Corps

attached to XIXth (Saxon) Corps

The Order of Merit for Tourism was instituted on May 27

A post-manufacture padded black leatherette reinforcement is retained on the crown but does not attach to the crown rivets

The blade sits securely within a highly-stylized semi-basket hilt

Souval - In zinc

Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, Women’s Version Archive attached to XIXth (Saxon) Corps(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst, I. Klasse fr Frauen). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, on loop for suspension from its period original bow tie style ribbon pinned with eagle device, consisting of a double sided oval oak leaf wreath joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated atop wheat stalks, the reverse bearing a raised inscription