Germany, Wehrmacht. A 25-Year Long Service Award, on Parade Mount United Republic of clasps on original striped ribbon

clasps on original striped ribbon from Kandahar

Stitched onto the peak is a wire Bundeswehr-style tricolour cockade

with mention of General

with a chip visible to the six o’clock arm of the Gold award

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 25-Year Long Service Award, on Parade Mount United Republic of clasps on original striped ribbon(Dienstauszeichnung der Wehrmacht fr 25 Jahre an Einzelspange). Instituted 16 March 1936. (1936 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded tombak, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a single parade mount with a horizontal pinback and Heer Kriegsmarine device, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central raised Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a