Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Award, by the Prussian Mint Archive vertical banjo style pin

vertical banjo style pin

the National Order of Merit

A presentation case for an Officer’s Badge of the Order of the Golden Grain

Throughout their history

It was withdrawn from the Eastern Front entirely in August 1944

Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Award, by the Prussian Mint Archive vertical banjo style pin(Grubenwehr Ehrenzeichen). Constructed of silver, the obverse consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, overlaid by a crossed hammer and mallet, situated above a Free State of Prussia style German national eagle clutching a sword and cluster of lightning bolts, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE UM DAS GRUBEN RETTUNGS WESEN (FOR MERIT IN MINE RESCUE), the reverse bearing a makers mark of PREUSS. STAATS MUENZE for the Prussian