Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Decoration, II Class with Case, by Karl Wurster Auction Archive Dual integral oak leaf bands

Dual integral oak leaf bands are set into the shaft just beneath the throat

all of the wire intact

the 9 and 3 o’clock arms read “WELT-KRIEG”

Footnote: James Owen was born on April 27

surrounded by a ring of red inscribed PATRIAE AC HUMANITATI (FOR COUNTRY AND HUMANITY)

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Decoration, II Class with Case, by Karl Wurster Auction Archive Dual integral oak leaf bands(Reichsfeuerwehr Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 22 June 1936 by Wilhelm Frick. (1936 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Geneva Cross, the obverse with white enameled arms bearing stylized red flames, overlaid by a central white enameled medallion bearing a black mobile swastika, with the arms of the cross joined through the