Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac constructed of a heavy card

constructed of a heavy card stock frame with a faux black leather exterior and silvered Maltese Cross embossed onto the lid

and his mother was Wilhelmina

PONSCARME" on the reverse

He was killed in action on March 4

the cross is topped by a Hanoverian lion connected to a partially enamelled crown and green-enamelled laurel branches

Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac constructed of a heavy card(Reichsnhrstand Ehrenzeichen fr 40 Jahre Treue Dienste). Constructed of feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsnhrstand (RNST) insignia in the form of a German national eagle perched on top of a pedestal overlaid by an inscription of BLUT UND BODEN (BLOOD AND SOIL) and a mobile swastika defaced by a sword and wheat stalk, situated above a number 40 and inscription of REICHSNHRSTAND, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a