Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 Archive and weighing 14

and weighing 14

Stiff-framed flap with a black wool exterior

in turn bearing initials “DSB” and clutching a house and mobile swastika

measuring 140 mm (w) x 92 mm (h)

The lower third features intricate acid-etched arabesque latticework

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 Archive and weighing 14(Feuerwehrehrenzeichen). Instituted June 22nd, 1936. Two piece construction in silvered bronze, white, black, and red enamels, with a band in the quadrants between the arms of the cross inscribed with Fr Verdienste im Feuerlschwesen (For Merit in Fire Fighting) in capitalised German lettering, the obverse with a white enamelled Greek cross bearing red enamelled flames on all arms of the cross with a central medallion bearing a mobile black enamelled