A Mint Ss 8-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Auction Archive 100 mm x 137 mm

100 mm x 137 mm photograph mounted to a thick 105 mm x 157 mm card backer

He was commissioned as a Captain in The Queen's York Rangers on August 28

circa 1825-30

During 1890-1913 period 226 Grand Cross sets awarded

obverse marked "MEXICAN SILVER" and marked "67" on the blade

A Mint Ss 8-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Auction Archive 100 mm x 137 mmA textbook example of a SS 8 Year Long Service Award (SS Dienstauszeichnung); in bronze; unmarked, but these medals were produced exclusively by Deschler & Sohn of Munich and Lorenz of Unterreichenbach; exquisite manufacturing quality with very fine details; the obverse bearing the standard SS runes within an oak leaf wreath with ribbons on the bottom of the wreath; the reverse inscribed Fr Treue Dienste in der SS (For Loyal Services in the SS)