Germany, Ss. A Long Service Award, Ii Class For 12 Years Archive with his B

with his B

four push pins)

unmarked but bearing the physical characteristics of manufacture by Otto Schickle

later referred to as "gastric enteritis"

on field green cloth background

Germany, Ss. A Long Service Award, Ii Class For 12 Years Archive with his B(SS Dienstauszeichnung, II. Klasse fr 12 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1941 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on a teardrop loop for suspension from a period replacement ribbon, consisting of a swastika with ribbed arms, the obverse bearing central double Sig runes, set within a circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked, measuring 38. 22