Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac White Fleet on its visit

White Fleet on its visit to Japan in 1908

the remain badges with intact enamels

once at Carinhall

maker marked ""S

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac White Fleet on its visit(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Constructed of gilded and silvered 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 twelve oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR