Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years certificate_of_authenticity and the dagger is completed

and the dagger is completed with a flattened and rounded pommel bearing raised oak leaves around the outer circumference

Karl Graf Finck von Finckenstein (1835–1915)

he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant (D

52 mm (w) x 69

as well as in the bombing of Warsaw

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years certificate_of_authenticity and the dagger is completed(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 silvered Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular and gilded 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