Germany, Rad. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years GTRexclude on gray Luftwaffe backing

on gray Luftwaffe backing

approximately 62x39mm

in silvered and gilt bronze with blue and black enamels

A third reich period WHW (Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes/Winter Relief of the German People) Saar region donation badge

Germany, Rad. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years GTRexclude on gray Luftwaffe backing(Dienstauszeichnung der Reichsarbeitsdienst, I Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a central raised Reich Labour Service (RAD) insignia in the form of a shovel overlaid by a mobile swastika, set within wheat stalks, the reverse bearing a