Germany, Third Reich. A Customs Service Decoration consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac surrounded by a ring of

surrounded by a ring of blue with white oak leaves and stating “LUFTGAU MOSKAU

stamped with an issue number and bearing an etched owner’s name

Footnote: The star was instituted in 1929 by Mohammed Nadir Khan and awarded to officers who had been involved in the defeat of Bacha-i-Saqao (Habibullah Kalakani)

the 58th (Central Ontario) Battalion

measuring 34 mm x 28 mm in diameter

Germany, Third Reich. A Customs Service Decoration consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac surrounded by a ring of(Zollgrenzschutz Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 17 February 1939. (1939 1944 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with ribbed and pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, surrounding a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE