Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand Bavarian Agricultural Association 40-Year Long Service Award Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic carmine red leather-like exterior

carmine red leather-like exterior

Martin Plains

surface wear on the arms

the reverse with inscription of “Für treue Dienste in der Reserve und Landwehr” (“For Faithful Service in the Reverse and Territorial Army”)

A Homeland in Danger

Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand Bavarian Agricultural Association 40-Year Long Service Award Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic carmine red leather-like exterior(Reichsnhrstand Landesbauernschaft Bayern Ehrenzeichen fr 40 Jahre treue Dienste). Constructed of silvered zink, on loop for suspension from a period replacement ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsnhrstand insignia, the reverse bearing a central inscription of FUER 40 JAHRE TREUE DIENSTE (FOR 40 YEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE, circumscribed by an inscription of REICHSNHRSTAND LANDESBAUERNSCHAFT BAYERN executed in a stylized runic script, unmarked,