Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand Bavarian Agricultural Association 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac by volunteer Catholic groups more

by volunteer Catholic groups more or less agglutinated around a Catholic association

measuring 560 mm (w) x 530 mm (h)

a Heer Officer’s visor cap cockade and wreath

In a letter from the Personal Effects Distribution Center at the United States Naval Supply Depot in Clearfield

Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand Bavarian Agricultural Association 40-Year Long Service Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac by volunteer Catholic groups more(Reichsnhrstand Landesbauernschaft Bayern Ehrenzeichen fr 40 Jahre treue Dienste). Constructed of silvered zink, on loop for suspension from a period replacement ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsnhrstand insignia, the reverse bearing a central inscription of FUER 40 JAHRE TREUE DIENSTE (FOR 40 YEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE, circumscribed by an inscription of REICHSNHRSTAND LANDESBAUERNSCHAFT BAYERN executed in a stylized runic script, unmarked,